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Lemon, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Middletown City. It lies in ZIP code area 45044. It stands on North Branch Dicks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Lemon within Butler County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lemon, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lemon, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

55,072 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Middletown City. 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 Middletown City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 53 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lemon between 1879 and 1973: 34 Animalia, 13 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1929?Hueston Woods.
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Storeria occipitomaculata, not of this specimenStoreria occipitomaculata Storer, 18391879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Tropidoclonion lineatum, not of this specimenTropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856)1879not recordedHughes
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1880not recordedMonroe
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedMonroe
A photograph of the species Physella gyrina, not of this specimenPhysella gyrina (Say, 1821)1898A. C. BillupsMiddletown
Ascobolus aeruginosus (Oeder) Gillet1920Lloyd C. G.Middletown
Corticium Pers., 17941920Lloyd C. G.Middletown

All 53 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lemon: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Armco Inc/ Middletown, OhioIronUnknown
Mecco Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mecco, Incorporated PltSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Middletown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moorman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moorman Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lemon in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLemon$500Numerous three to four inch diameter branches were knocked down on Yankee Road near State Route 63.
May 2025HailLemon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Blue Ball0.4 miles16
Mayfield1.9 miles16
Eldorado2.3 miles13
South Highlands2.3 miles12
Upper Arlington2.8 miles12
Brittany Heights2.8 miles16
Oneida2.9 miles16
South Middletown3.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056398. 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.