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

Kreitzer Corner, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45345. It stands on Wysong Run. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle.

Kreitzer Corner within Montgomery County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kreitzer Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kreitzer Corner, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1882 county history

26,494 words on this township

The county history of 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 26,494 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 322 shown

Museums hold 322 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kreitzer Corner between 1897 and 1974: 308 Animalia, 5 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Braun, Lucy E., Coovert, G. A. (Gary A.) 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 cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.1897H. W. Anderson
Specimen of Dryopteris cristata (L.) A.GrayDryopteris cristata (L.) A.Gray1898Young, H.W.Farmersville
A photograph of the species Ferrissia rivularis, not of this specimenFerrissia rivularis (Say, 1817)1904Allen, JohnBrookville
A photograph of the species Porella platyphylloidea, not of this specimenPorella platyphylloidea (Schwein.) Lindb.1912Braun, Lucy E.
Septoria glumarum Pass.1918Paxton G. E.New Lebanon
unnamed1922Edwin E. Honey"The Shades".
A photograph of the species Lycogala Adanson, not of this specimenLycogala Adanson, 17631922Edwin E. Honey"The Shades".
A photograph of the species Puccinia peridermiospora, not of this specimenPuccinia peridermiospora (Ellis & Tracy) Arthur1922Edwin E. Honey"The Shades," Waveland
A photograph of the species Stemonitis Roth, not of this specimenStemonitis Roth, 17871922Edwin E. Honey"The Shades".
A photograph of the species Trichia Haller, not of this specimenTrichia Haller, 17681922not recorded"The Shades," Waveland
Volutellonectria J.Luo & W.-Y.Zhuang, 20121922Edwin E. Honey"The Shades," Waveland
Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1927Langelier, GustaveLOCNM: Kingsville

All 322 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Kreitzer Corner in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 2019Tornado (EF1)Kreitzer Corner$250,000The tornado first touched down in eastern Preble County at 1950EST about 1 mile southwest of West Alexandria. The tornado move northeast and crossed into Montgomery County at 1956EST along Preble County Line Road, about 1/4 mile south of Old Dayton Road. ||Two properties on the southwest corner of the intersection of Sheep Road and Old Dayton Road had damage that was observed to be among the more significant caused by this tornado. At the Old Dayton Road property, a barn had half of its roof completely removed, with failure to the doors and damage to the walls. A thick metal fence surrounding a pool was also blown over and several large trees were downed. At the Sheep Road property, wooden fencing was blown down from the north and from the east, with some damage to the roof of a house, including a small section of roof removal. The street sign at the corner of Old Dayton Road and Sheep Road was blown approximately 500 feet into the field to the northeast. A third property on the north side of Old Dayton Road had shingle damage to the roof of a home, in addition to extensive tree damage.||On North Sulfur Springs Road, two properties suffered extensive tree damage. A property on the east side of the road also had two outbuildings damaged, with one suffering the loss of some roofing material and the other having a section of the main door flipped and bent over the top of the roof. Further east, a few trees were damaged at a residence on the east side of Crawford Road.||Several properties along Little Richmond Road, near and east of Johnsville-Brookville Road, were also affected by tree damage. One property just south of Little Richmond Road had a large swing set moved into an adjacent yard by the tornado. The end of the observed damage was to several trees along a tree line about 1000 feet north of Little Richmond Road.
May 2020FloodKreitzer Corner-High water was reported on U.S. Route 35 near Preble County Line Road.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Little Richmond1.0 miles10
Johnsville1.4 miles11
New Lebanon3.2 miles11
Pyrmont3.7 miles10
Amity4.5 miles13
Voyager Village West4.7 miles13
Hays Corner4.8 miles13
Brookville5.6 miles10

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 Q122559480The 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 1062844. 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.

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.