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Valley Junction, Ohio
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45002. It stands on Whitewater River. The Survey maps it on the Hooven quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1996The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
20 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.
- 1915 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:48000
- 1928 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Lawrenceburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Hooven quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Whitewater township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Development Of Commerce
Before manufacturing can fairly begin in a new country, commerce and exchange must provide for the wants of a community in many directions. Local trade sets in as soon as there is anything to buy or sell, be it only a fish hooked from the water, or venison shot .in the forest. When Demand calls ''Hello!'' Supply answers ''Here I am.'' The Cincinnati pioneers in 1789 wanted seed-corn, and corn for hominy and bread, and immediately corn-meal came from Lexington, down the Licking, in canoes.
In the county-history sources
267,357 words on this townshipHistory of Hamilton County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Whitewater Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The township is intersected for about four miles, from northeast to southwest, by the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago railroad, which is joined at Valley Junction, midway between the Great Miami and the Whitewater, by the Harrison branch, or the Whitewater Valley railroad, which is run by the former corporation. The Harrison branch has about three and one-half miles in the township, in a general north and south line, following pretty closely the abandoned route of the Whitewater canal. The Cincinnati and Harrison turnpike crookedly crosses the township in its northern part, leaving it on the east at Miainitown ; and the people seem otherwise well supplied with wagon 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 Whitewater Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 801 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 801 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valley Junction between 1835 and 1975: 323 Fungi, 300 Animalia, 171 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Gaufin, A.P. Morgan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Carex davisii Schwein. & Torr. | 1835 | Frank | in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio |
 | Mentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald | 1835 | Collector unspecified | Miami. |
 | Sanicula canadensis L. | 1835 | Frank | in ditione Miami civitatis Ohio |
 | Desmodium Desv. | 1836 | Short, C.W. | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio prope 'North Bend' [banks of Ohio River near North Bend]. |
 | Dicentra Bernh. | 1836 | Short, C.W. | Fernbank [=Fernbank Park] ad ripas fluminensis Ohio, prope North Bend, Kentucky. |
 | Monotropa uniflora L. | 1836 | Haupt, J.G. | 4 mile NW. Cincinnati |
 | Viola L. | 1840 | Short, C.W. | In America boerali prope Fernbank, ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope North-Bend (Kentucky). | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope ''North Bend.'' [=In northern America, near Fernbank, beside the Ohio River, near North Bend (Kentucky).] |
| Actaea alba (L.) Mill. | 1841 | Sanders, Alfred | 2.5 m. west Cincinnati | |
 | Claytonia virginica L. | 1841 | Sanders, Alfred [?] | 2.5 milles west of Cincinnati |
| Dasyscyphus viridulus (Schrad.) Sacc. | 1898 | A. P. Morgan | ||
 | Lanius excubitor borealis Vieillot, 1808 | 1898 | J. N. Proctor | Westwood |
| Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | not recorded | Westwood |
All 801 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Valley Junction: 13 past producers, 7 producers, 2 plants. 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashcraft Main Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ashcraft Sand and Gravel, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bunnell Gravel Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bunnell Gravel Pit Number 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Cleves Plant Number 6 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cleves Plant Number 6 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East Miami Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East Miami Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Eaton Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Eaton Sand and Gravel Pit | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cilley (historical) | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hooven | 1.0 miles | 20 | |
| Perryville (historical) | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Cleves | 1.5 miles | 19 | |
| Elizabethtown | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| North Bend | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| White Water Park | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Gieringer | 2.8 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063076. 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.