Alpha, Ohio

Alpha is a neighborhood of Beavercreek, 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]

Location of Alpha, Ohio
Alpha, Ohio looking southwest on Alpha Road, May 2018

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
  1. Zip Code Lookup
  2. "Greene County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
  3. Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 3.
  4. 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.
  5. "STATIONS OF THE PAST". Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  6. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alpha, Ohio
  7. 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


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