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

Lerado, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45176. The Survey maps it on the Newtonsville quadrangle.

Lerado within Clermont County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Lerado, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lerado, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

172 words on this township

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

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 292 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 292 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lerado between 1915 and 1975: 135 Fungi, 132 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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 Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 1789Xylaria Hill ex Schrank, 17891929Braun, E. LucyGoshen
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1916Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1918Braun, E. LucyGoshen
A photograph of the species Leptogium corticola, not of this specimenLeptogium corticola (Taylor) Tuck.1920Braun, E. LucyNewtown (Newtonsville)
A photograph of the species Flavoparmelia caperata, not of this specimenFlavoparmelia caperata (L.) Hale1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Peltigera polydactylon, not of this specimenPeltigera polydactylon (Neck.) Hoffm.1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Physcia Michx., not of this specimenPhyscia (Schreb.) Michx., 18031922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
Physcia millegrana Degel.1922Braun, E. LucyGoshen Station
A photograph of the species Hirneola auricula-judae, not of this specimenHirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1926s.c.Goshen
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1928Fulford, Margaret HannahGoshen
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.

All 292 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lerado in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindLerado$15,000A roof was blown off of a barn and scattered trees were reported down across Clermont County due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLerado$3,000Several trees were uprooted.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLerado$250Several large limbs were downed.
April 2019FloodLerado-High water was reported on Hunt Road near Ohio Route 131.

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
Moores Fork1.7 miles15
Marathon2.1 miles15
Woodland Park3.6 miles15
Newtonsville4.2 miles15
Edenton4.4 miles15
Pringle Corners4.6 miles15
Monterey4.8 miles15
Modest5.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064987. 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.