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

Nashville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45373. The Survey maps it on the West Milton quadrangle.

Nashville within Miami County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Nashville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Nashville, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

74,276 words on this township

The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880; The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

On the 13th of December, 1806, application was made to the quarterly meeting at Red Stone, Penn., the nearest meeting, for the establishment of a monthly meeting, which was granted. Subsequently, a yearly" meeting having been established in Richmond, Ind., the privilege of holding a Quarterly meeting was by it

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio, published 1880.

Hence, the foregoing premises stand out as lucidly explanatory of the early manufactories, and the various directions of development the different branches of industrial pursuits have taken. The soil of this township is rich and productivey yielding abundant harvests of all the cereals and grasses, and possessing within itself all the chemical elements of regeneration.

Passage source: The History of Miami County, Ohio : Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Map of Miami County; Constitution of the United States; Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., Etc, published 1880.

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 Union Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 284 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nashville between 1835 and 1975: 255 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A V DEL, A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin 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
Quercus macrocarpa Michx.	1835	Frank
unnamed	1897	F. L. Stevens	Sugar Grove.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	F.L. Stevens	Sugar Grove
Botrypus virginianus (L.) Michx.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, Miami [County]
Carex albursina E.Sheld.	1835	Collector unknown
Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1835	Collector unspecified
Gentianella quinquefolia subsp. occidentalis (A.Gray) J.M.Gillett	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Ohio, in ditione civitatis Miami
Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Marssonina panattoniana (Berl.) Magnus	1896	Skinner C. W.	Troy
Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter	1897	F.L. Stevens
Uredo	1897	Prof. W.A. Kellerman
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1898	Collector(s): L. Kumlein	Milton, Ohio

All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Nashville: 6 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Gregory Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gregory Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gregory Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Haas Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Brothers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northmont Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Miami 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
Kessler	1.0 miles	12
West Milton	2.6 miles	12
Frederick	2.8 miles	12
Pinebrook Estates	3.4 miles	12
Pamela Estates	3.4 miles	13
Pigeye	3.4 miles	12
County Line (historical)	3.6 miles	12
Kensington	3.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049002. 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.