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

Manor, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45458. The Survey maps it on the Springboro quadrangle. It stands 3,241 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Manor within Montgomery County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manor (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Manor (historical), surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

25,756 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 Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 25,756 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 106 shown

Museums hold 106 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manor (historical) between 1839 and 1975: 87 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 3 Chromista, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, ANSEL JOHN 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
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. south
A photograph of the species Potentilla canadensis, not of this specimenPotentilla canadensis L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mile south.
A photograph of the species Cystopteris protrusa, not of this specimenCystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell1885Zeidler, C.Vicinity of Oakwood.
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1888E. S. SteeleCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Malva moschata, not of this specimenMalva moschata L.1889ATWCarlisle
A photograph of the species Phlox divaricata, not of this specimenPhlox divaricata L.1890Henry C. CowlesCarlisle.
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1905H VOLLERBEAVERTOWN
A photograph of the species Peronospora parasitica, not of this specimenPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1907Scheible, E.Miamisburg
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1908E. E. HuneanMiamisburg
A photograph of the species Phyllactinia corylea, not of this specimenPhyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1908see Collection NoteMiamisburg
Frullania inflata Gottsche1912Braun, E. LucyBluffs west of Calvary Cemetary
Stenocrepis cuprea (Chaudoir, 1843)1921ChamberlainMiamisburg

All 106 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Centerville2.8 miles14
Oak Ridge4.8 miles14
Wittes Corners4.9 miles14
Woodbourne4.9 miles14
Oakwood Village5.4 miles13
Shanersville5.5 miles14
Hampstead6.3 miles14
Oakdale7.0 miles14

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 Manor (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6751302The 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 1059149. 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.