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

Houck Meadows, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mad River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45323. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Yellow Springs quadrangle.

Houck Meadows within Clark County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Houck Meadows, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Houck Meadows, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1,254 shown

Museums hold 1,254 specimens collected within 10 miles of Houck Meadows between 1840 and 1975: 782 Animalia, 329 Plantae, 136 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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 Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) BlasdellCystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell1878Beardslee, H.C.near Springfield
Specimen of Conardia compacta (Müll.Hal.) H.Rob.Conardia compacta (Müll.Hal.) H.Rob.1910H.S. JewettNeff Park, Yellow Springs
Specimen of Hygroamblystegium irriguum var. spinifolium Mönk.Hygroamblystegium irriguum var. spinifolium Mönk.1913Henry S. JewettNeff Park
A photograph of the species Caulophyllum thalictroides, not of this specimenCaulophyllum thalictroides (L.) Michx.1840Williams, M.G.Springfield
A photograph of the species Staphylea trifolia, not of this specimenStaphylea trifolia L.1840Williams, M.G.Springfield
A photograph of the species Funaria hygrometrica, not of this specimenFunaria hygrometrica Hedw.1846not recordedSpringfield
A photograph of the species Bidens bipinnata, not of this specimenBidens bipinnata L.1870J Y Bergen; T L BergenYellow Springs
A photograph of the species Bryhnia graminicolor, not of this specimenBryhnia graminicolor (Brid.) Grout1870J. W. Eckfeldtnear Springfield
A photograph of the species Bryum pseudotriquetrum, not of this specimenBryum pseudotriquetrum var. bimum (Schreb.) Lilj.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax subsp. orthocladon (P.Beauv.) Wijk & Margad.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Schwetschkeopsis denticulata, not of this specimenSchwetschkeopsis denticulata (Sull.) Broth.1870J. W. EckfeldtSpringfield
A photograph of the species Amblystegium serpens, not of this specimenAmblystegium serpens var. angustifolium H.Lindb. ex Limpr.1871H. J. BiddlecomeSpringfield

All 1,254 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Houck Meadows: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Fairborn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Fairborn Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Universal Atlas Cement, Div. OfStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Demmy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Demmy Sand and Gravel.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Enon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Enon Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fairborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Keifer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Keifer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Indian Valley Estates1.0 miles16
West Enon Estates1.7 miles16
Green Meadows1.8 miles16
Holiday Valley2.1 miles16
Enon2.3 miles14
Oakgrove2.3 miles16
Tecumseh Estates2.6 miles16
Tiffany Acres2.8 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122548946The 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 1051382. 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.