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

Zimmerman, 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 45432. The Survey maps it on the Bellbrook quadrangle.

Zimmerman 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 Zimmerman, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Zimmerman, 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 336 shown

Museums hold 336 specimens collected within 10 miles of Zimmerman between 1839 and 1975: 292 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Dinorthis Hall & Clarke, 1892 (fossil)	1921	Carl O. Dunbar	RR cut at new dam 4 or 5 mi E of Dayton
Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.	1923	Mrs. Bayard R. Taylor	Clifton Gorge
Allium canadense L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Phalangium esculentum Nutt.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Sagittaria sagittifolia L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mi. northeast.
Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 1766	1896	Wright, Frank S.	LOCNM: Zenia (near)
Calopompilus Ashmead, 1900	1902	D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1907	H VOLLER	DAYTON HUFFMAN PRAIRIE
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1908	Lewis Sylvester Hopkins	Ohio, Greene county
Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1908	L. S. Hopkins
Woodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.	1908	L. S. Hopkins
Chamberlainia acuminata (Hedw.) Grout	1910	H. S. Jewett	Yellow Springs

All 336 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Zimmerman: 8 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Haines Road #419	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hawker and Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hawker and Son Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Larry Prine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lary Prine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillips Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Phillips Sand and Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pyper Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Xenia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Xenia Plant No. 414 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms nearby

8 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Zimmerman in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Zimmerman	$50,000	Several trees were downed and minor roof damage occurred to homes along Grange Hall Road.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Zimmerman	$3,000	A large 175 year old tree was blown down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Zimmerman	$1,500	A large limb and a fence were knocked down by the wind.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Zimmerman	$1,000	A few trees had broken limbs and a house had siding removed from the top of the home and thrown downwind.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Zimmerman	$1,000	A one foot diameter tree was snapped due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2017	Flood	Zimmerman	-	A small stream in the Tara West Subdivision was reported out of its banks.
June 2021	Hail	Zimmerman	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Zimmerman	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Knollwood	0.6 miles	14
Valleywood	1.0 miles	14
Beavercreek	1.3 miles	14
Alpha	2.1 miles	14
Mount Saint John	2.3 miles	14
New Germany	3.5 miles	16
Trebein	4.1 miles	14
Park Hills Crossing	4.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061811. 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.