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

Valley Hills, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rootstown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44266. It stands on New Milford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Atwater quadrangle.

Valley Hills within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valley Hills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Valley Hills, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1885 county history

4,242 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Rootstown Township covers the first cabin, david root, a sad death, first wheat crop, nathan muzzy, a distillery.

Read the chapter on Rootstown Township - 4,242 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 697 shown

Museums hold 697 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valley Hills between 1880 and 1975: 427 Animalia, 232 Plantae, 31 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Frankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.TisonFrankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.Tison1910Rankin; H.H. Whetzel
Specimen of Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.1910H.H. Whetzel
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus propinquus, not of this specimenCambarus propinquus Girard, 18521893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio

All 697 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Valley Hills: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Karl Brugmann Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
R.A. Cruise Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sober PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twin Lakes Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage 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
New Milford1.4 miles18
Rootstown1.5 miles18
Campbellsport2.2 miles15
Ravenna2.7 miles15
Hamlet Park2.7 miles15
Fair Acres3.2 miles15
West Park Homes3.4 miles14
Sprotts Corners3.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2513646. 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.