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

Springhills, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43318. The Survey maps it on the Bellefontaine quadrangle. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Springhills within Champaign County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Springhills, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Springhills, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 707 shown

Museums hold 707 specimens collected within 10 miles of Springhills between 1877 and 1975: 677 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 1 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross, A. Spreitzer, A. White (Ohio State Univ.) 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 Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Frullania squarrosa (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Dumort.Frullania squarrosa (Reinw., Blume & Nees) Dumort.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Radula obconica Sull.Radula obconica Sull.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Asteraceae1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1892Dormire Geo.Carysville
A photograph of the species Euphorbia humistrata, not of this specimenEuphorbia humistrata Engelm.1892W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Lejeunea calcarea, not of this specimenLejeunea calcarea Lib.1892W. C. Werner
Specimen of Cololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.EvansCololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans1893William C. Werner
A photograph of the species Frullania selwyniana, not of this specimenFrullania selwyniana Pearson1893W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Sistrurus catenatus, not of this specimenSistrurus catenatus catenatus1893not recordedsouth of Urbana: Dallas Bog, Champaign Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Clemmys guttata, not of this specimenClemmys guttata (Schneider, 1792)1898Wilcox, M. (Mead)Cedar Bog, Champaign Co., Ohio
Paragordius varius (Leidy, 1851)1911F. DenmeadWest Liberty

All 707 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
Crayon4.0 miles13
Rosewood5.5 miles13
Northville5.9 miles13
Old Pimtown (historical)6.0 miles13
Lippincott6.6 miles13
Carysville6.6 miles13
Eris6.9 miles13
Grandview Heights7.2 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.

Wikipedia article on SpringhillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7581134The 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 1065371. 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.