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Utopia, 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 45121. The Survey maps it on the Felicity quadrangle.
Then and now
1931 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1931 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:62500
- 1931 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Felicity quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
50 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Franklin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 25 specimens collected within 10 miles of Utopia between 1896 and 1974: 23 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M Bradford, Culberson W. L., J. Galloway 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Geothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811) | 1896 | A.M Bradford | Bradford |
 | Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852 | 1927 | J. Galloway | Big Run, (L. Miami Riv. Basin) |
 | Micropterus dolomieu dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
 | Micropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
 | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Bullskin Creek, within Franklin township, near Felicity, Franklin township |
 | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Indian Creek, On SE Edge Of Monroe Township |
| Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw. | 1939 | Lonsing, A. | Dayton. Woods. | |
| Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Ohio River off Boudes Ferry, Lewis Township | |
 | Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Ohio River at Utopia, Franklin Township |
 | Eurycea longicauda (Green, 1818) | 1947 | W E DUELLMAN ET AL | CHILO |
| Parmelia rudecta Ach. | 1960 | Culberson W. L. |
All 25 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Utopia: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedron Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Howerton Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Cedron | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Stringtown | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Chilo | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Felicity | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Olive | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Neville | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Point Isabel | 9.1 miles | 12 |
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 Utopia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3470693 | 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 1065418. 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.