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Symmes, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Symmes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45140. It stands on Polk Run. The Survey maps it on the Madeira quadrangle.

Symmes within Hamilton County

Then and now

1898 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Symmes, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Symmes, surveyed 1898

Compare 1898 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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

11,290 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Symmes Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Symmes is one of the later and smaller townships. It was created between 1820 and 1826, solely from the eastern part of Sycamore, to which were added two tiers of sections on the west which had formerly belonged to Springfield township. It is bounded on the south by Columbia township, on the west by Sycamore, on the north by Warren county, and on the east by the Little Miami, which follows a tortuous course of nearly twelve miles along the eastern front of Symmes. When about midway of its course here, it deeply indents the township, reducing its width from the extreme breadth of a little more than four miles on a line a short distance north of West Loveland, to a trifle over a mile in the latitude of Remington, about two and one-half miles from the south line of the township. Below this point the width of the township is no where greater than three and a quarter miles on the section line next north of Camp Dennison. The length of the township on the western border and for more than a mile eastvyard is the same as that of Springfield and Sycamore townships - seven miles, dwindling down to nothing in the bends north and south of the great bend of the Miami.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The lands of the township lie altogether in the entire range one, township five, the whole ®f which is in Symmes, and the southernmost tier of sections in the entire range two, township five. They comprise thirteen full and twelve fractional sections - the latter lying altogether along the Little Miami. The total number of acres is twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-eight. The boundary lines were run in this part of the Purchase with tolerable regularity, though some slightly broken ones appear in the north half of the township, and some singularly wide sections in the south part. Sections numbered thirteen, nineteen, twenty-five and thirty-one, lying in both ranges, are duplicated in this township.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

The little Miami railroad crosses about a mile and a half of the territory of Symmes in its southeastern part, on a line through Camp Dennison, averaging a half-mile's distance from the river. The Marietta & Cincinnati railroad enters at Allendale, near the opposite or southwest corner of the township, strikes the vicinity of the river at Remington and Montgomery stations, and thence follows the Little Miami closely, where it crosses into Clermont and shortly into Warren counties. The Cincinnati & Wooster turnpike passes through the township on the general line of the Little Miami railroad, crossing the river like that just below Miamiville. The old State road, from Columbia via Montgomery toward Chillicothe, also intersects the township, as do numerous other turnpikes and common roads.

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, 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 Symmes Township - it names this place 26 more 26 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,602 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,602 specimens collected within 10 miles of Symmes between 1839 and 1973: 1,756 Fungi, 489 Animalia, 203 Plantae, 148 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14753, A. H. W. Povah, A. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Melanthium virginicum, not of this specimenMelanthium virginicum L.1839Joseph ClarkDuck Creek, 6 miles from Cincinatti
A photograph of the species Fomes applanatus, not of this specimenFomes applanatus (Pers.) Fr.1850James D. L.Loveland
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581875not recordedLOCNM: Glendale
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1875Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
A photograph of the species Zonotrichia leucophrys, not of this specimenZonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772)1875Porter, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081876Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Glendale
A photograph of the species Leiothlypis ruficapilla, not of this specimenLeiothlypis ruficapilla (A.Wilson, 1811)1876Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Madisonville
Hybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551899Henshall, J. A. (James A.)Little Miami River, within Hamilton Co, Hamilton County, township n/a
Trichoptera1900not recordedLockland, Miami Canal
Aleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Pat.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cincinnati, Hazelwood Preserve
Anomodon attenuatus (Hedw.) Huebener1929Fulford, MargaretMadisonville, Martin Road

All 2,602 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Symmes: 2 plants, 1 past producer. 2 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
Camp Dennison PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Camp Dennison PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Michael PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Hamilton 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
The Village of Indian Hill0.2 miles19
Twightwee0.6 miles15
Miami Grove1.0 miles19
Foxhunter Lane1.3 miles19
Remington1.9 miles19
Jones Farm2.3 miles19
Loveland2.3 miles15
Sixteen Mile Stand2.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063048. 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.