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

Oakwood Village, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Miami Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45342. The Survey maps it on the Springboro quadrangle.

Oakwood Village 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 Oakwood Village, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oakwood Village, 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

25,484 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 Miami Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Miami Township - 25,484 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 180 shown

Museums hold 180 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakwood Village between 1835 and 1975: 147 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 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
Specimen of Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. 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 Rhizoctonia DC., not of this specimenRhizoctonia DC.1907Gilbert W. W.Germantown
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
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1912Braun, Lucy E.In ravine on the Bluffs

All 180 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oakwood Village: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carter & Webb IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Chautauqua2.7 miles13
Shanersville3.3 miles14
Miamisburg4.1 miles13
Bridgeport4.3 miles13
Centerville5.2 miles14
Manor (historical)5.4 miles13
West Carrollton5.5 miles13
Pineview Estates5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2542658. 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.