Alpha, Ohio
39°42′42″N 84°01′24″W / 39.71167°N 84.02333°W
Alpha is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio, in the United States. It is located on the eastern side of the Dayton metropolitan area. A post office is located in Alpha, with the ZIP code of 45301.[1]
A post office called Alpha has been in operation since 1850.[2] The community is one of the oldest in the area.[3] Alpha was named for the first letter of the Greek alphabet because it was at, or on the site of, the first mill in the county.[4]
It was the location of a Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad railway station stop, of a railway that has been shut down and turned into a bike path.[5]
Alpha has also been known in the past as Harbine or Harbines.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Zip Code Lookup
- ^ "Greene County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 3.
- ^ History of Greene County Together with Notes on the Historic Northwest and the State of Ohio, Dayton: Odell and Mayer Publishers, 1881. Accessed 2010-08-17. 578.
- ^ "STATIONS OF THE PAST". Retrieved September 13, 2013.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alpha, Ohio
- ^ Zink, Frank B. "Township History". Beavercreek Township, Greene County, Ohio. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
Taken from Robinson's 1961 Rural Directory