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

Voyager Village West, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Trotwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 45417. It stands on Garber Run. The Survey maps it on the Miamisburg quadrangle.

Voyager Village West within Montgomery County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Voyager Village West, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Voyager Village West, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 700 shown

Museums hold 700 specimens collected within 10 miles of Voyager Village West between 1835 and 1974: 555 Animalia, 76 Plantae, 61 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Foeerste, A. E. Foerste, A. F. Foerste 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 Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilumHypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum1835Joseph C. FrankGermantown
Specimen of Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.1881Foerste AF
Specimen of Geaster limbatus Fr.Geaster limbatus Fr.1883A. E. FoeersteDayton
A photograph of the species Platanthera leucophaea, not of this specimenPlatanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.1836C. W. ShortDayton
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum macrophyllum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.1838J. W. Van CleveDayton
A photograph of the species Cassia marilandica, not of this specimenCassia marilandica L.1839Sanders, AlfredDayton
A photograph of the species Cynoglossum officinale, not of this specimenCynoglossum officinale L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs E.
A photograph of the species Iris versicolor, not of this specimenIris versicolor L.1839not recordedDayton. 2 mi. south
A photograph of the species Nuphar advena, not of this specimenNuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton1839Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. HauptDayton
A photograph of the species Potentilla canadensis, not of this specimenPotentilla canadensis L.1839not recordedDayton. 1 mile south.
Pteris aquilina L.1839not recordedDayton
A photograph of the species Solanum dulcamara, not of this specimenSolanum dulcamara L.1839not recordedDayton. Suburbs NW.

All 700 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Voyager Village West: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Olive Road Limestone PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Olive Road QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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 Lebanon1.6 miles11
Six Mile2.3 miles13
Liberty2.6 miles13
Amity2.8 miles13
Post Town3.1 miles13
Hays Corner3.3 miles13
Drexel3.6 miles13
Johnsville3.7 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122568569The 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 2542666. 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.