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

Roxanna, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spring Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45068. It stands on Bear Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville quadrangle.

Roxanna within Greene 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 Roxanna, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roxanna, 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 183 shown

Museums hold 183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roxanna between 1896 and 1975: 166 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 8 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, B. G. Berger, Bauer Allen H. 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
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 Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1908Lewis Sylvester HopkinsOhio, Greene county
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1910Carter, J. B. (James B.)Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1918W. T. MabowXenia
A photograph of the species Urocystis occulta, not of this specimenUrocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1918Stover W. G.Xenia
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hazard, F. O. et al.Clifton Gorge: near springs & edge of creek, Greene Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1929Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Clifton Gorge: near springs & at edge of creek, Greene Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Campbell, L. W. (Louis W.)Miami Twp: Clifton, Greene Co., Ohio
Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1930Earl, T. M. (Thomas M.)Cedarville, Greene, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Campbell, L. W. (Louis W.)Miami Twp: Clifton, Greene Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1930R. RhoadesXenia State Hatchery

All 183 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Roxanna: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 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
Coates Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Valley Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Spring Valley Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spring Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wilson Site Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Roxanna in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRoxanna$1,000A tree was downed onto Roxanna New Burlington Road.

Every storm 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
Cornstalk1.8 miles15
Spring Valley1.9 miles13
Spring Valley Estates2.8 miles13
Bellbrook4.7 miles14
Ferry4.7 miles13
Washington Mills4.8 miles14
Maple Corner6.1 miles15
Whites Corner6.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065251. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.