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

Pleasant View, 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. It stands on Reeds Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fairborn quadrangle.

Pleasant View 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 Pleasant View, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pleasant View, 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 832 shown

Museums hold 832 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant View between 1839 and 1975: 610 Animalia, 114 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
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)
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1907H VOLLERDAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
A photograph of the species Chamberlainia acuminata, not of this specimenChamberlainia acuminata (Hedw.) Grout1910H. S. JewettYellow Springs
A photograph of the species Conardia compacta, not of this specimenConardia compacta (Müll.Hal.) H.Rob.1910H.S. JewettNeff Park, Yellow Springs
Crypsis schoenoides (L.) Lam.1910Hopkins, L.S.Yellow Springs

All 832 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant View: 7 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. 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 Aggregate Plant & No.4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Fairborn Number 4 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fairborn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Larry Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lary Prine 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
Fairborn0.9 miles16
Five Points1.3 miles16
Wrightview1.4 miles16
Park Hills Crossing2.1 miles16
Byron2.4 miles16
Hennessee (historical)2.6 miles16
Simms (historical)3.1 miles16
Huffeysville (historical)3.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067587. 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.