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

Pleasant Run Farm, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45240. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle.

Pleasant Run Farm within Hamilton County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Run Farm, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Run Farm, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1881 county history

25,313 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Springfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Springfield Township - 25,313 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,796 shown

Museums hold 1,796 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Run Farm between 1819 and 1975: 915 Fungi, 573 Animalia, 190 Plantae, 104 Protozoa, 9 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A Schwartz, A. P. Morgan, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Clavaria striata Pers.Clavaria striata Pers.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.1899Aiken, Walter H.College Hill
Specimen of Peronospora parasitica (Pers.) De BaryPeronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary1899Aiken, Walter H.Hamilton County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Quercus leana, not of this specimenQuercus × leana Nutt.1819Thomas Nuttall3 miles North of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Carex davisii, not of this specimenCarex davisii Schwein. & Torr.1835Frankin ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
A photograph of the species Mentha arvensis, not of this specimenMentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald1835Collector unspecifiedMiami.
A photograph of the species Sanicula canadensis, not of this specimenSanicula canadensis L.1835Frankin ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
A photograph of the species Monotropa uniflora, not of this specimenMonotropa uniflora L.1836Haupt, J.G.4 mile NW. Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Phlox divaricata, not of this specimenPhlox divaricata L.1841not recorded2.5 miles north of Cincinnati
A photograph of the species Triodopsis tridentata, not of this specimenTriodopsis tridentata (Say, 1817)1857Bartlett, JohnCincinnati
A photograph of the species Piranga rubra, not of this specimenPiranga rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Berberis vulgaris, not of this specimenBerberis vulgaris L.1875s.c.Spring Grove

All 1,796 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Run Farm: 1 producer. 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
Fairfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hamilton 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
Pleasant Run0.9 miles16
Forest Park2.5 miles16
Mount Healthy Heights2.5 miles16
Greenhills2.8 miles16
New Burlington3.0 miles16
Springdale3.5 miles15
Dunlap3.8 miles16
Northgate4.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867465. 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.