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

New Germany, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beavercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45324. The Survey maps it on the Fairborn quadrangle.

New Germany within Greene 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 New Germany, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of New Germany, 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 230 shown

Museums hold 230 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Germany between 1839 and 1975: 212 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 5 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin, Arlian, L. G. 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
Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Allium canadense L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Phalangium esculentum Nutt.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Sagittaria sagittifolia L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1896	Wright, Frank S.	LOCNM: Zenia (near)
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1907	H VOLLER	DAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
Chamberlainia acuminata (Hedw.) Grout	1910	H. S. Jewett	1.5 mi. S of Yellow Spring
Frullania eboracensis Gottsche	1911	Henry S. Jewett	Idlewood, northeast of Dayton, 0.5 to 6 ft. from ground
Phomopsis juniperovora G.G.Hahn	1919	not recorded	Yellow Springs, From Carr's Nurseries
Brachiopoda (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Bryozoa (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Grewingkia Dybowski, 1873 (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton

All 230 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Germany: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Fairborn Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hawker and Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hawker and Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Larry Prine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lary Prine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

4 since 2016

The National Weather Service names New Germany in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2019	Tornado (EF3)	New Germany	$50,000,000	The tornado first touched down in Riverside in far eastern Montgomery County at 2212EST before quickly moving into western Greene County at 2213EST. The tornado continued to move east across western and central Greene County before lifting along U.S. 68, about 5 miles north of Xenia.\|\|There were two locations along the track of this tornado in the Beavercreek area where damage was indicative of EF3 intensity. The first was in the vicinity of I-675 and Grange Hall Road. Several homes along Rushton Drive had entire roofs lifted, as well as the collapse of several exterior walls with only interior walls left standing. Additional homes along Gardenview and Wendover Drives experienced high-end EF2 damage with windows shattered, garage doors collapsed and entire roof structures removed.\|\|Additional EF3 damage occurred in Beavercreek near Anna Laura Lane. In this area, some buildings of an apartment complex had large sections of roofs removed and exterior walls on upper levels collapsed, leaving just interior walls standing. \|\|Most of the damage from near Grange Hall road eastward to businesses near North Fairfield Road was EF2 to EF1 type damage, where some concrete block businesses had partially collapsed walls and roof lift off.\|\|Much of the tornado path occurred from roughly 0.5 miles north of Kemp Road to within 0.1 miles south of Kemp Road, within the limits of Beavercreek. As the tornado moved east-southeast into Beavercreek township, the damage became more consistent with EF0, to occasionally lower-end EF1, damage. This included damage along Fairground, Beaver Valley and Ludlow Roads. The tornado damage ended just to the east of U.S. 68 in Xenia Township, where roof and tree damage occurred just north of Clifton Road. This was also consistent with high-end EF0 to low-end EF1 damage.
February 2024	Tornado (EF1)	New Germany	$500,000	The tornado initially touched down at 0437EST in far northeast Montgomery County, near the intersection of Mitchell Drive and Spinning Road. The tornado moved quickly east-northeast and entered Greene County, just past Airway Road as it moved into the far southern portions of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at 0438EST. \|\|A restoration hangar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base received minor structural damage with sheet metal ripped off. Some planes that were in the process of being restored also suffered damage due to flying debris. This damage was notable enough to warrant EF1 strength winds of around 100 mph. Additional damage occurred along Loop Road, where guard rails were bent and several hardwood trees were broken and snapped. A few of the dwellings on the eastern side of the base had damage to the roofs as shingles were ripped off. \|\|More residential damage was observed just east of the base, with quite a bit of shingles lost on the roof of an apartment complex, just behind a grocery store. Based on the damage, the tornado weakened as it traveled further eastward from this point, with mainly tree damage observed. The last bit of tree damage was found near University Boulevard, just west of the Student Union at Wright State University.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	New Germany	$1,000	One tree was knocked down.
May 2019	Hail	New Germany	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Woodland Hills	1.1 miles	16
Simms (historical)	2.4 miles	16
Wrightview	2.7 miles	16
Knollwood	2.9 miles	14
Huffeysville (historical)	3.0 miles	16
Five Points	3.3 miles	16
Zimmerman	3.5 miles	14
Park Hills Crossing	3.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049006. 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.