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

Sugar Valley, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dixon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45320. The Survey maps it on the Eaton South quadrangle.

Sugar Valley within Preble County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sugar Valley, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Sugar Valley, surveyed 1911

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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 county-history sources

15,262 words on this township

History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Dixon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

There are no streams of importance in the township. Four Mile creek winds through the central portion from north to south, but is scarcely deserving of the name of creek. During the summer months a mere thread of water finds its way along the river bed, but of not sufficient magnitude to turn the water mills along its course. In the eastern sections there is a small stream called Paint creek. It is of small importance, however. Another of the same kind flows through the southwestern sections.

Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.

It is to be regretted that the early records of the township cannot be obtained, but by some carelessness they have been mislaid, and are not to be found. Some of the most important facts are obtainable from the older settlers; but on many points we are unable to speak positively.

Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.

The next to come into the township was a Kentuckian named Kercheval Indeed some are in doubt as to whether he was not the first man, but the majority of opinions make him arrive later in the year than Dixon, possibly pretty nearly at the same time. Kercheval settled farther south on Four Mile creek, in section twentyeight He built a mill there, but was probably a resident of this township for only a short time, as his name does not occur in any of the later papers, nor is he ever mentioned by the present inhabitants. This mill was the first ever built in the township; it stood on the east bank of Four Mile creek, on the same site where the Niccum mill now stands.

Passage source: History of Preble County Ohio, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Dixon Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 945 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 945 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sugar Valley between 1877 and 1975: 791 Animalia, 90 Plantae, 59 Fungi, 5 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.L.; Bucholtz, I., A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1877	Matthes,B.	USA, Ohio, Hamilton County, Camden
Bulgaria rufa Schwein.	1909	Fink, V.; Steven, W. G.	In Houston's Woods [sic; Hueston Woods State Park, Butler and Preble counties].
Cenangium ferruginosum Fr.	1909	Bruce Fink
Ramularia armoraciae Fuckel	1890	Elliott E. N.	Morning Sun
Uria lomvia lomvia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1896	Stewart, R. T. (Robert T.)	Israel Twp, Fairhaven, Preble, Ohio, USA
Septoria oenotherae Westend.	1901	W. A. Kellerman
Bryum pseudotriquetrum (Hedw.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods, east of Talawanda Creek
Campylium hispidulum (Brid.) Mitt.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods
Cladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad., 1794	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods State Park
Cladonia macilenta var. bacillaris (Ach.) Schaer.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods State Park
Cladonia peziziformis (With.) J.R.Laundon	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods State Park
Dicranum scoparium Hedw.	1909	Braun, E. Lucy	Hueston Woods

All 945 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lake Lakengren	1.1 miles	11
Corvin (historical)	1.6 miles	11
Muttonville	2.8 miles	11
West Florence	4.4 miles	13
Fosterville	4.6 miles	11
Fairhaven	4.8 miles	13
Quail Trail	5.0 miles	11
Claysburg (historical)	5.2 miles	13

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 Sugar Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22344610	The 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 1046834. 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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