Block
Shively, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hopewell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45822. The Survey maps it on the Erastus quadrangle.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Celina quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Celina quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Erastus quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Erastus quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,215 words on this townshipHistory of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Hopewell Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Is six miles in length from east to west and five miles wide from north to south. It has an area of 30 square miles. It is bounded on the north by Dublin township, on the east by Center township, on the south by Jefferson township, and on the west by Liberty township. The township is level throughout and the soil is exceedingly fertile. There are no streams of importance within its borders. It has three country stores at different places in the township. At Stedcke, John W. Shively has a general store ; at Tamah, a station on the Cincinnati Northern Railroad, there is a store and grocery and also a grain elevator; and at Oregon, a station on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, there is a store. The Home Telephone Company, of which the secretary, I. N. Kraner, is a resident of Hopewell township, has lines all over the township.
Passage source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 271 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shively between 1840 and 1975: 266 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Adler, K. K., Brown, H P 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830) | 1920 | R. Rhoades | St. Marys Lake at Celina |
 | unnamed | 1934 | P. P. Pirone | Coldwater |
 | Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842) | 1942 | H. Price | St. Mary's River |
 | Silene virginica L. | 1840 | J. Wolle, D. Blum | |
 | Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840) | 1886 | Meek and Harris | Montezuma |
 | Ardea alba egretta Gmelin, 1789 | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Calidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-1994 | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 1902 | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Gallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825) | 1888 | J. R. Slonaker | Celina |
 | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1888 | J.R.S. | Celina |
All 271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shively: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John W. Karch Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| John W. Karch Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Striptown (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Tama | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Earley (historical) | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hinton | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Durbin | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Abbeywood Estates | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Summit Court | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bursville | 4.7 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063015. 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.