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

Valleywood, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beavercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45430. The Survey maps it on the Bellbrook quadrangle.

Valleywood within Greene County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valleywood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Valleywood, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 273 shown

Museums hold 273 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valleywood between 1839 and 1975: 246 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)1921Carl O. DunbarRR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
A photograph of the species Allium canadense, not of this specimenAllium canadense L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Phalangium esculentum Nutt.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Sagittaria sagittifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria sagittifolia L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mi. northeast.
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661896Wright, Frank S.LOCNM: Zenia (near)
Calopompilus Ashmead, 19001902D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1907H VOLLERDAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1911Henry S. JewettIdlewood, northeast of Dayton, 0.5 to 6 ft. from ground
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1918W. T. MabowXenia
A photograph of the species Urocystis occulta, not of this specimenUrocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1918Stover W. G.Xenia
Brachiopoda (fossil)1921Carl O. DunbarRR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Bryozoa (fossil)1921Carl O. DunbarRR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton

All 273 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Valleywood: 7 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 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
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hawker and Son PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Larry Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lary Prine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillips PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pyper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pyper PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Xenia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Xenia Plant No. 414 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Knollwood0.8 miles14
Zimmerman1.0 miles14
Beavercreek1.1 miles14
Mount Saint John1.3 miles14
Alpha2.8 miles14
New Germany3.6 miles16
Woodland Hills4.7 miles16
Trebein4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049270. 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.