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

Homewood, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45015. It stands on Crawford Run. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle.

Homewood within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Homewood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Homewood, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the 1905 county history

17,301 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fairfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fairfield Township - 17,301 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 459 shown

Museums hold 459 specimens collected within 10 miles of Homewood between 1835 and 1975: 402 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 LeptostromataceaeLeptostromataceae1883Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. KellermanLancaster.
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
A photograph of the species Calidris melanotos, not of this specimenCalidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)1879W. DouglassJones Station
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Mimus polyglottos, not of this specimenMimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes

All 459 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Homewood: 6 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Armco Inc/ Hamilton, OhioIronUnknown
Aggregate Services PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
American Materials/ Hamilton, OhioSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fairfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fairfield Plant No. 10 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Fairfield Plant Number 10 and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hilltop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
New Miami PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
New Miami PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Schlichter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms nearby

4 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Homewood in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Flash FloodHomewood$5,000Water rescues were needed at a mobile home park near Hamilton Mason Road.
June 2009Flash FloodHomewood$3,000Numerous roads had high water in the Hamilton and New Miami areas.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHomewood$2,000A couple of trees were knocked down.
July 2013FloodHomewood-Water several inches deep was over roadways near East River Road and Fairview Avenue due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Butler County

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
Belmont0.6 miles15
East Hamilton0.7 miles15
Ixworth (historical)0.8 miles16
Dixiedale1.1 miles16
Schenck1.3 miles16
Griesmer Addition1.3 miles16
Lindenwald1.3 miles16
South Hamilton1.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2353402. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.