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

Saltair, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tate Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45106. The Survey maps it on the Laurel quadrangle.

Saltair within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saltair, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Saltair, surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 722 shown

Museums hold 722 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saltair between 1866 and 1975: 553 Animalia, 135 Fungi, 25 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. F. Braun, Alice Edwards; J.G. Edwards 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 Apophthisis pullata Braun, 1915Apophthisis pullata Braun, 19151929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1866Mohr, C.Bantam
A photograph of the species Asarum canadense, not of this specimenAsarum canadense L.1877Mohr, MarieClermont County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Vireo griseus, not of this specimenVireo griseus noveboracensis (Gmelin, 1789)1879Freeman, L.Locust Corner, Clermont, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Geastrum lageniforme, not of this specimenGeastrum lageniforme Vittad.1882Carley S. T.
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Liobunum Agassiz, not of this specimenLiobunum Agassiz, 18461890[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Mammuthus primigenius, not of this specimenMammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) (fossil)1900not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821904Lindahl, J. (Joshua)Batavia, Clermont Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1910C. C. M.Bantam

All 722 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 Saltair: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Point Pleasant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clermont County

Storms nearby

5 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Saltair in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2002Thunderstorm WindSaltair$25,000Ten trees ranging from two to two and a half feet in diameter were uprooted. Several homes sustained minor structural damage and a small shed was destroyed.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSaltair$4,000Several trees were downed on Meisman Lane.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSaltair$3,000Ohio Route 222 was closed in both directions between Bethel-Hygiene Road and Saltair-Maple Road due to debris.
October 2016Flash FloodSaltair-High water was reported at the intersection of State Routes 222 and 232.
June 2011Heavy RainSaltair-Ponding of water was reported on roads due to heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Point Isabel2.3 miles12
Pinhook2.3 miles12
Wiggonsville2.5 miles12
Nicholsville2.6 miles12
Laurel2.7 miles12
Mount Olive3.8 miles12
South Bantam3.9 miles12
Bethel4.1 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on SaltairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134238The 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 1063000. 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.