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

Knollwood, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beavercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45432. The Survey maps it on the Bellbrook quadrangle.

Knollwood within Greene 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 Knollwood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Knollwood, surveyed 1913

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 303 shown

Museums hold 303 specimens collected within 10 miles of Knollwood between 1839 and 1975: 268 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, 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 Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)1921Carl O. DunbarRR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Specimen of Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Allium canadense, not of this specimenAllium canadense L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Phalangium esculentum Nutt.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Sagittaria sagittifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria sagittifolia L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661896Wright, Frank S.LOCNM: Zenia (near)
Calopompilus Ashmead, 19001902D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1907H VOLLERDAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1908L. S. Hopkins
A photograph of the species Woodsia obtusa, not of this specimenWoodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.1908L. S. Hopkins
A photograph of the species Chamberlainia acuminata, not of this specimenChamberlainia acuminata (Hedw.) Grout1910H. S. Jewett1.5 mi. S of Yellow Spring
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1910Carter, J. B. (James B.)Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA

All 303 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Knollwood: 6 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Larry Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lary Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillips PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Xenia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Xenia Plant No. 414 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

2 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Knollwood in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKnollwood$1,000A tree was downed near the intersection of Kemp Road and Grange Hall Road.
February 2023HailKnollwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Zimmerman0.6 miles14
Valleywood0.8 miles14
Beavercreek1.7 miles14
Mount Saint John2.0 miles14
Alpha2.8 miles14
New Germany2.9 miles16
Woodland Hills4.0 miles16
Park Hills Crossing4.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065706. 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.