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Laurel, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45157. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle.

Laurel within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Laurel, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Laurel, surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 county-history sources

976 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 671 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 671 specimens collected within 10 miles of Laurel between 1866 and 1975: 503 Animalia, 134 Fungi, 25 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, Alice Edwards; J.G. Edwards 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 Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis peregrina, not of this specimenLeiothlypis peregrina (A.Wilson, 1811)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanLocust Corner
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1910C. C. M.Bantam

All 671 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Laurel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Brewer Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Point Pleasant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurel in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLaurel$10,000The Emergency Manager had multiple reports of trees down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLaurel$4,000Several trees were downed.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindLaurel$3,000Trees downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLaurel$2,000Some trees were knocked down in Monroe Township.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLaurel$1,000One tree was knocked down.
April 2020HailLaurel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Point Pleasant2.7 miles12
Saltair2.7 miles12
Nicholsville3.2 miles12
Clermontville3.3 miles13
Point Isabel3.5 miles12
Moscow4.5 miles13
Pinhook5.0 miles12
Mount Pisgah5.2 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on LaurelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133897The 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 1061328. 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.