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

Island View, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stokes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43331. It stands on Blackhawk Run. The Survey maps it on the Waynesfield quadrangle.

Island View within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Island View, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Island View, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 356 shown

Museums hold 356 specimens collected within 10 miles of Island View between 1909 and 1975: 314 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 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 Hypoxylon coccineum Bull.Hypoxylon coccineum Bull.1940Phinney, Harry KenyonEast fork of Little Miami River
Specimen of Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.1940Phinney, Harry KenyonEast Fork of Little Miami River
Specimen of Phlebia tremellosa (Schrad.) Nakasone & Burds.Phlebia tremellosa (Schrad.) Nakasone & Burds.1940Phinney, Harry KenyonEast Fork of Little Miami River
A photograph of the species Ganoderma lucidum, not of this specimenGanoderma lucidum (Curtis) P.Karst.1909Stover W. G.; Fink G. C.Lewistown
A photograph of the species Dryocampa rubicunda, not of this specimenDryocampa rubicunda Fabricius, 17931916not recordedMuchinippi Creek, Myers Rd RM 4.8, 2.2 miles southwest of Lakeview OH, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Cuscuta gronovii, not of this specimenCuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardOak Island, near Chippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Pedicularis lanceolata, not of this specimenPedicularis lanceolata Michx.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardChippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1927Fullerton, H. T.Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio
Pioscelus borealis (Ashmead, 1891)1927Beamer, Raymondunspecified
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork Great Miami River, within Logan Co, Logan County, township n/a

All 356 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Island View: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Duff QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Duff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff Sand Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms nearby

1 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Island View in 1 storm report between 2012 and 2012: 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
August 2012Thunderstorm WindIsland View$1,000A tree was downed in the Indian Lake State Park area due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Chippewa Park0.2 miles17
Avondale0.7 miles17
O'Connor Point2.2 miles16
Orchard Island2.5 miles16
Lakeview Meadows2.5 miles16
Lakeview2.9 miles16
Russells Point3.1 miles16
Santa Fe6.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048865. 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.