Symmes Corner, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1915 1986

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.

• 1915 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
• 1917 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1955 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Greenhills quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000

The Mound Builders : Being an Account of a Remarkable People That Once Inhabited the Valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, Together with an Investigation Into the Archæology of Butler County, O., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Fairfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 453 specimens collected within 10 miles of Symmes Corner between 1835 and 1975: 396 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Leptostromataceae	1883	Prof. W. A. Kellerman
	Phyllosticta Pers., 1818	1883	W. A. Kellerman	Lancaster.
	Carex careyana Torr. ex Dewey	1835	Collector unknown	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
	Carex convoluta Mack.	1835	Collector unspecified	"Miami"
	Carex gracillima Schwein.	1835	B. Frank	In ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
	Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)	1879	W. Douglass	Jones Station
	Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Diadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 1859	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Lampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)	1879	not recorded	Hughes
	Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)	1879	Porter collection, J.B.	LOCNM: Jones
	Spiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1879	Porter, J.B.
	Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1879	not recorded	Hughes

All 453 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Symmes Corner: 6 past producers, 6 producers, 2 plants, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Butler County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Symmes Corner in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Butler County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063049. 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.