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

Stringtown, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45120. The Survey maps it on the Felicity quadrangle.

Stringtown within Clermont County

Then and now

1931 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Stringtown, surveyed 1931

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 1891 county history

50 words on this township

The county history of 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Franklin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 50 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 85 shown

Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stringtown between 1896 and 1974: 60 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Braun, E. Lucy, Bureau of Fisheries 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
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1896A.M BradfordBradford
A photograph of the species Obovaria retusa, not of this specimenObovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Plethobasus cyphus, not of this specimenPlethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Cladonia furcata, not of this specimenCladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 17941913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Usnea strigosella, not of this specimenUsnea strigosella1913Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel
Cladonia verticillata (Hoffm.) Schaer.1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
Liquidambar styraciflua L.1917Braun, E. Lucynear Bethel
Sabatia angularis (L.) Pursh1917Braun, E. LucyBethel
Catharinea Ehrh. ex D.Mohr1918Braun, E. Lucy
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1918Braun, E. Lucy

All 85 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 Stringtown: 2 producers. 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
Cedron StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Howerton GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clermont 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
Felicity1.2 miles11
Cedron2.6 miles11
Chilo3.0 miles13
Rural3.1 miles11
Utopia3.9 miles11
Mount Olive4.5 miles12
Point Isabel5.3 miles12
Neville6.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049218. 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.