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West Carrollton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in West Carrollton City. It lies in ZIP code area 45449. It stands on Opossum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Miamisburg quadrangle.

West Carrollton 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 West Carrollton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Carrollton, 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 520 shown

Museums hold 520 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Carrollton between 1835 and 1975: 361 Animalia, 89 Plantae, 61 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND W E DUELLMAN, A. E. Foeerste 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 Cardamine L., not of this specimenCardamine L.1839Sanders, Alfred; J.J. Nagel, J.G. Haupt.Dayton. 1 mile east.
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 Podophyllum peltatum, not of this specimenPodophyllum peltatum L.1839Nagel, J.J.; J.G. HauptDayton. 1 m. SE
A photograph of the species Polygala verticillata, not of this specimenPolygala verticillata L.1839Sanders, Alfred [?]1 mile SE of Dayton

All 520 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of West Carrollton: 9 producers, 6 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Broadway Sand & Gravel Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broadway Sand and Gravel IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Broadway Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Carter & Webb IncorporatedSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East River Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hilltop PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jackson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jackson Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Moraine Materials Pit No 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Number 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms nearby

10 since 1995

The National Weather Service names West Carrollton in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWest Carrollton$6,000Numerous trees were downed.
June 1995HailWest Carrollton$6,000Large hail destroyed crops and damaged automobiles.
June 2014Flash FloodWest Carrollton$1,000Tulip Drive in West Carrollton was covered by high moving water due to heavy rainfall.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWest Carrollton$1,000Large tree branches were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWest Carrollton$1,000Some 3 to 5 inch diameter limbs were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWest Carrollton$500Several large limbs were downed on Heincke Road in West Carrollton.
April 2015HailWest Carrollton-Hail was reported at West Carrollton High School.
April 2015HailWest Carrollton-no account filed
June 2014HailWest Carrollton-no account filed
April 2006HailWest Carrollton-no account filed

Every storm 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
Whitfield1.3 miles13
Miami Shores1.6 miles14
Pineview Estates1.7 miles13
Dwyer2.2 miles14
Miamisburg2.7 miles13
Shanersville2.8 miles14
Moraine2.9 miles14
Ellerton3.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065462. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.