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

Socialville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45040. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle.

Socialville within Warren 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 Socialville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Socialville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 830 shown

Museums hold 830 specimens collected within 10 miles of Socialville between 1850 and 1974: 632 Fungi, 112 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 38 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14529, A. H. W. Povah, A. J. Mix 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 Ipomoea lacunosa L.Ipomoea lacunosa L.1877Joseph Francis JamesLoveland
Specimen of Puccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) ArthurPuccinia rubella (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Arthur1878James, F.Loveland
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1877James, J.F.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1877James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Rumex altissimus, not of this specimenRumex altissimus Wood1877J. F. JamesLoveland.
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878Collector(s): unknownFoster Point
A photograph of the species Fomes scutellatus, not of this specimenFomes scutellatus (Schwein.) Cooke1878James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Justicia americana, not of this specimenJusticia americana (L.) Vahl1878Lloyd, Curtis GatesLoveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Polyporus cinnabarinus, not of this specimenPolyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr.1879James D. L.Loveland

All 830 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 Socialville: 1 plant. All of them 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
Michael PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms nearby

16 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Socialville in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2022FloodSocialville$100,000Several roads were closed across southern Warren County due to high water, including Mason Morrow Millgrove Road, Green Tree Road and Irwin Simpson Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSocialville$5,000A few trees and power lines were downed in the Loveland area.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindSocialville$5,000Trees and power lines were downed across the southern part of the county, including along Fields Ertel Road in Deerfield Township and near the intersection of Fisher Road and State Route 132 in Harlan Township.
March 2008FloodSocialville$5,000Numerous roads were flooded and closed across the county.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSocialville$1,000A large tree was downed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSocialville$1,000A pine tree had its top snapped off and several large branches were downed.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSocialville$1,000A large tree was downed on Socialville-Fosters Road.
January 2012FloodSocialville$1,000High water due to heavy rain was reported over Irwin-Simpson Road.
May 2009HailSocialville$1,000A spotter received penny size hail near the Mason-Montgomery Road interchange with Interstate 71 in Deerfield Township.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSocialville$100A large branch was downed along Snider Road near Homecrest Lane.
August 2018FloodSocialville-Around a foot of water was reported in the backyards of homes and flowing down driveways.
April 2017Flash FloodSocialville-Water was reported rushing over Meadow Drive near Irwin Simpson Road.
August 2015Heavy RainSocialville-Four inches of standing water was reported over a roadway.
April 2020HailSocialville-no account filed
August 2015HailSocialville-no account filed
April 2013HailSocialville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Miltomson0.6 miles15
Snidercrest1.2 miles15
Landen2.6 miles15
Twenty Mile Stand2.9 miles15
Mason3.0 miles15
Loveland Park3.9 miles15
Foster4.2 miles15
Butterworth (historical)4.2 miles15

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 SocialvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134282The 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 1065341. 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.