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

Mount Holly, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45068. It stands on Sandy Run. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville quadrangle.

Mount Holly within Warren 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 Mount Holly, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Mount Holly, 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 county-history sources

18,319 words on this township

The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The mill-power at Mount Holly was first improved by Joseph Chenoweth, who came from Virginia about the year 1815, by putting in a dam and sawmill. A grist-mill was built there by John Satterthwaite about 1818. Mills have been kept up there ever sinca There is evidence to show that Banes improved this power very early in the present century.

Passage source: The History of Warren County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Wayne Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 210 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 210 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Holly between 1844 and 1973: 201 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Polyporus dryophilus Berk.	1844	Lea T. G.	Waynesville
Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1862	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)	1862	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Actinonaias ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1879	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Little Miami Riv., Warren Co.
Megalonaias gigantea (Barnes, 1823)	1879	Whiteaves, Joseph F.	Great Miami Riv.
Percopsis omiscomaycus (Walbaum, 1792)	1888	J. Henshall	Cinter, Little Miami River, Ohio
Fabraea rosae (Lib.) Seaver	1891	H. A. Surface	Waynesville.
Catazyga headi (Billings, 1862) (fossil)	1903	William H. Twenhofel	near waynesville
Agaricus villaticus Brond.	1905	T.G. Lea	Waynesville
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1905	not recorded	M. Ridgeville
Fomes graveolens (Schwein.) Cooke	1908	Swope Eugene	Waynesville
Aclis carolinensis Bartsch, 1911	1917	J. Henderson	Florida Keys, Caesars Creek

All 210 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount Holly: 2 plants, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lytle Pit & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
Spring Valley Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Spring Valley Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Spring Valley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Waynesville Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wilson Site Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Warren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crosswick	3.1 miles	13
Corwin	4.0 miles	13
Waynesville	4.1 miles	13
Harveysburg	4.8 miles	13
Lytle	5.5 miles	13
Edgewood (historical)	5.8 miles	13
Wellman	6.2 miles	16
Venable (historical)	6.7 miles	13

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 Mount Holly	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134007	The 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 1065070. 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.