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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Hills, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Goshen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45122. The Survey maps it on the South Lebanon quadrangle.

Hills within Clermont County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Hills, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,363 shown

Museums hold 1,363 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hills between 1850 and 1975: 954 Fungi, 295 Animalia, 72 Plantae, 39 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 1789Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 17891929Braun, E. LucyGoshen
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Trifolium stoloniferum, not of this specimenTrifolium stoloniferum Muhl.1877J. F. JamesMiamiville
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus cinnabarinus, not of this specimenPolyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 1,363 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Springvale2.0 miles16
Goshen2.1 miles16
Mount Repose4.3 miles16
Shiloh4.5 miles15
Epworth Heights4.9 miles19
Sundale4.9 miles19
Mulberry5.2 miles16
The Highlands5.3 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133824The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061250. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.