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

Pleasant Run, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45231. The Survey maps it on the Greenhills quadrangle.

Pleasant Run 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, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Run, 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Colerain township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 - Colerain Township

Population Jared Cloud

of Colerain township, was born on St. Patrick's day, the seventeenth of March, 1808; is Of Welsh, and Enghsh descent on his father's side and of French descent on that of his mother. Mason Jones Cloud, his grandfather, came from Virginia about the year 1778, and settled in Boone county, Kentucky. Unfortunately for the fate of Mason, he was required to return to Virginia for a sum of money there due him, and after only a three days' stay in his new home, in company with two others, set out on his perilous trip, and, with his companions, was massacred on Licking river by the hostile Indians.

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In the county-history sources

9,514 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Colerain Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The township is pretty well provided with wagon-roads; but the great highway through it is the famous Colerain pike, which intersects it almost in a diagonal from Mount Airy, first beyond the southeast corner of the township, to a point upon the river-road in the direction of Venice, Butler county, very near the northwest corner. It is described in King's Pocket-book of Cincinnati, as "a continuation of Central avenue. At the junction of Central avenue with Denman street, the site of the old Brighton house, it takes a northerly direction, passing through Camp Washington by the workhouse and the house of refuge, through Cumminsville (by the Wesleyan cemetery) and Mount Airy, on to Colerain township, from which it received its name. Continuing, it passes through Venice and Oxford, in Butler county, where it is known as the Cincinnati pike. The road is well macadamized." After leaving Mount Airy at a mile's distance, it passes the village of Groesbeck, in Colerain township; a little more than two miles further it passes through Bevis, and at about three miles' distance the old village site of Georgetown. All the villages of the tpwnship, except Pleasant Run, a hamlet in the northwest corner, are situated upon this fine road.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

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Read the whole chapter on Colerain Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,913 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,913 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Run between 1819 and 1975: 979 Fungi, 630 Animalia, 184 Plantae, 104 Protozoa, 9 Chromista, 6 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Clavaria striata Pers.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Tul.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
Peronospora parasitica (Pers.) De Bary	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	Hamilton County, Ohio
Quercus × leana Nutt.	1819	Thomas Nuttall	3 miles North of Cincinnati
Carex davisii Schwein. & Torr.	1835	Frank	in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
Mentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald	1835	Collector unspecified	Miami.
Sanicula canadensis L.	1835	Frank	in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio
Monotropa uniflora L.	1836	Haupt, J.G.	4 mile NW. Cincinnati
Phlox divaricata L.	1841	not recorded	2.5 miles north of Cincinnati
Triodopsis tridentata (Say, 1817)	1857	Bartlett, John	Cincinnati
Piranga rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)	1874	Porter collection, J.B.
Berberis vulgaris L.	1875	s.c.	Spring Grove

All 1,913 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pleasant Run: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Run Farm	0.9 miles	16
Mount Healthy Heights	2.0 miles	16
New Burlington	2.8 miles	16
Dunlap	2.9 miles	16
Greenhills	3.1 miles	16
Forest Park	3.2 miles	16
Bevis	3.5 miles	16
Northgate	3.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056480. 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.