Salem Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 546 specimens collected within 10 miles of Salem Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church between 1835 and 1975: 390 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 61 Fungi, 4 Chromista, 3 Protozoa, 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Hypericum mutilum subsp. mutilum	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Germantown
	Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.	1881	Foerste AF
	Geaster limbatus Fr.	1883	A. E. Foeerste	Dayton
	Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1836	C. W. Short	Dayton
	Hydrophyllum macrophyllum Nutt.	1838	J. W. Van Cleve	Dayton
	Cassia marilandica L.	1839	Sanders, Alfred	Dayton
	Cynoglossum officinale L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. Suburbs E.
	Iris versicolor L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 2 mi. south
	Nuphar advena (Aiton) Aiton	1839	Sanders, Mrs.; J.G. Haupt	Dayton
	Podophyllum peltatum L.	1839	Nagel, J.J.; J.G. Haupt	Dayton. 1 m. SE
	Polygala verticillata L.	1839	Sanders, Alfred [?]	1 mile SE of Dayton
	Potentilla canadensis L.	1839	not recorded	Dayton. 1 mile south.

All 546 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Salem Bear Creek Church, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 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.

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germantown, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery County

When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.

The whole case file for this property - 2,953 words, 41 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 90001291, 41 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Jacob's Church	2.9 miles	1990
	Miamisburg Mound	3.9 miles	1970
	Schuter Carpenter Shop and House	4.4 miles	1980
	Emmanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church	4.9 miles	1990
	Deeds' Barn	5.2 miles	1979
	Shuey's Mill	5.2 miles	1975