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

Westview Estates, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. It stands on Taylor Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kenton quadrangle.

Westview Estates within Hardin County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westview Estates, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Westview Estates, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1883 county history

23,391 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pleasant Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pleasant Township - 23,391 words.

Fires nearby

6 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Westview Estates between 2002 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 November 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westview Estates between 1882 and 1973: 116 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Angle, E. (Eric), Anson A. Hinkley 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke	1906	Penfield, O.; C. B. Wilson	Ridgeway
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1923	W.G. Stover	Kenton
Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1939	J. Pelton	Pond near Kenton
Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 1817	1882	W.C. Hampton	Mt. Victory
Puccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.	1908	Clinton; Bird	Mt. Victory
Guignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1910	Heckathorne H. E.	Kenton
Puccinia asterum (Schwein.) F.Kern	1913	Bartholomew E.	Kenton
Puccinia caricis-solidaginis Arthur	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton
Puccinia dioicae Magnus	1913	Bartholomew, Elam T	Kenton
Puccinia extensicola Plowr.	1913	E. Bartholomew	Kenton.
Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1914	Anson A. Hinkley	Scioto River, Kenton, near headwaters, North America

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Westview Estates: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
	Hardin Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Hardin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kenton	0.8 miles	12
Mentzer	4.5 miles	11
Walnut Grove	4.5 miles	12
Grant	4.9 miles	12
Blanchard	5.6 miles	11
Silver Creek	6.0 miles	11
Browns Crossroads	6.3 miles	11
Bridgeport	6.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2647864. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.