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

Spring Valley Court, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44833. It stands on Rocky Fork. The Survey maps it on the Galion quadrangle.

Spring Valley Court within Crawford County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Valley Court, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Spring Valley Court, 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.

In the 1912 county history

31,927 words on this township

The county history of 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Polk Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Polk Township - 31,927 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Valley Court between 1842 and 1973: 115 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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 Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1842William S. Sullivant
Specimen of Peronospora sordida Berk. & BroomePeronospora sordida Berk. & Broome1896F.L. StevensOlentangy Valley
Specimen of Septoria E.M.Fries, 1819Septoria E.M.Fries, 18191896F. L. StevensOlentangy Valley; 40.761724 -82.873517
A photograph of the species Cirriphyllum piliferum, not of this specimenCirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout1842W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1842W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1844not recorded
Specimen of Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.1897W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Stereum versicolor, not of this specimenStereum versicolor (Sw.) Fr., 18381897W. A. KellermanGalion.
A photograph of the species Gymnoconia interstitialis, not of this specimenGymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.1906Hieber ChristinaBucyrus
A photograph of the species Lythrurus fasciolaris, not of this specimenLythrurus fasciolaris (Gilbert, 1891)1927Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Olentangy River, within Whetstone township, near Martel, Whetstone township
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1927Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Olentangy River, within Whetstone township, near Martel, Whetstone township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1927Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Olentangy River, within Whetstone township, near Martel, Whetstone township

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley Court: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Crawford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Crawford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Olentangy Estates1.8 miles13
Galion2.3 miles13
Olentangy2.8 miles13
Middletown3.4 miles13
North Robinson4.2 miles13
New Winchester4.7 miles12
Leesville4.8 miles13
Crestline6.2 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122598016The 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 2514069. 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.