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

Silver Springs, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in New Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45385. It stands on South Branch Caesar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedarville quadrangle.

Silver Springs within Greene County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Silver Springs, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Silver Springs, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 205 shown

Museums hold 205 specimens collected within 10 miles of Silver Springs between 1878 and 1975: 173 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, Arden R. Gaufin, B. G. Berger 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 Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Mayetiola destructor, not of this specimenMayetiola destructor (Say, 1817)1878not 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 Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1899Young, W.U."On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1899Young, W.U."On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1899Young, W.U."[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Dryopteris marginalis, not of this specimenDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1899Young, W.U.
Calopompilus Ashmead, 19001902D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
A photograph of the species Woodsia obtusa, not of this specimenWoodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.1908L. S. Hopkins
A photograph of the species Chamberlainia acuminata, not of this specimenChamberlainia acuminata (Hedw.) Grout1910H. S. Jewett1.5 mi. S of Yellow Spring
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
Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1912Henry S. JewettNeff [House] Park

All 205 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Maple Corner2.6 miles15
Monroe3.0 miles14
New Jasper3.0 miles14
Middleton Corner3.7 miles12
Stringtown3.8 miles14
Paintersville4.3 miles12
Shawnee Hills4.6 miles14
Xenia4.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1080546. 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.

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