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

Park Hills Crossing, Ohio

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

Park Hills Crossing 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 Park Hills Crossing, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Park Hills Crossing, 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 894 shown

Museums hold 894 specimens collected within 10 miles of Park Hills Crossing between 1839 and 1975: 661 Animalia, 125 Plantae, 102 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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 Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)1921Carl O. DunbarRR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Specimen of Leiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.EvansLeiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.Evans1922William Bayard Taylor; G. H. ConklinClifbore[sp?] Gorge
Specimen of Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Allium canadense, not of this specimenAllium canadense L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Phalangium esculentum Nutt.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Sagittaria sagittifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria sagittifolia L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Bidens bipinnata, not of this specimenBidens bipinnata L.1870J Y Bergen; T L BergenYellow Springs
A photograph of the species Amblystegium serpens, not of this specimenAmblystegium serpens (Hedw.) Schimp.1877not recorded
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661896Wright, Frank S.LOCNM: Zenia (near)
Calopompilus Ashmead, 19001902D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1907H VOLLERDAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1908Lewis Sylvester HopkinsOhio, Greene county

All 894 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Park Hills Crossing: 7 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairborn Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Fairborn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Fairborn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Universal Atlas Cement, Div. OfStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Larry Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lary Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillips PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Five Points0.9 miles16
Wrightview1.4 miles16
Byron1.8 miles16
Pleasant View2.1 miles16
Fairborn3.0 miles16
Woodland Hills3.4 miles16
New Germany3.5 miles16
Simms (historical)3.9 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122563878The 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 2517244. 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.