Laurel Homes, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 62 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Cincinnati Music HallNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970 · 0.4 miles away
• Cincinnati Union TerminalNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.6 miles away
• Plum Street TempleNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.7 miles away
• Carew TowerNational Historic Landmark · listed 1982 · 0.7 miles away
• Laurel Homes Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.1 miles away
• George F. Sands Schoollisted 2017 · 0.3 miles away
• Betts-Longworth Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Ohio National Guard Armorylisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
• Our Lady of Mercy High Schoollisted 1980 · 0.3 miles away
• Hamilton County Memorial Buildinglisted 1978 · 0.5 miles away
• Findlay Market Buildinglisted 1972 · 0.5 miles away
• Dayton Street Historic Districtlisted 1973 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in Hamilton County

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.

• 1914 USGS West Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 5,885 specimens collected within 10 miles of Laurel Homes between 1819 and 1975: 2,850 Fungi, 1,726 Animalia, 960 Plantae, 298 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Clavaria striata Pers.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
	Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1899	C.G. Lloyd	Cincinnati
	Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	Cincinnati
	Quercus × leana Nutt.	1819	Thomas Nuttall	3 miles North of Cincinnati
	Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
	Barbula unguiculata Hedw.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
	Sebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.	1827	Lloyd C. G.	Linwood
	Rhus venenata DC.	1830	Clark, Joseph	North of Cincinnati
	Equisetum arvense L.	1834	Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.	Cincinnati
	Carex comosa Boott	1835	Collector unspecified	In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
	Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Cincinnati.
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	College Hill

All 5,885 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Laurel Homes: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1059502. 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.