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

Abanaka, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45874. The Survey maps it on the Glenmore quadrangle.

Abanaka within Van Wert County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Abanaka, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Abanaka, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 121 shown

Museums hold 121 specimens collected within 10 miles of Abanaka between 1837 and 1970: 112 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bonnewitz L. R.; Stevenson J. A., Bonnewitz Lee R. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)1942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
Specimen of Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890Lestes dryas Kirby, 18901942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
A photograph of the species Geranium maculatum, not of this specimenGeranium maculatum L.1837FrankVan Wert Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cerastium glomeratum, not of this specimenCerastium glomeratum Thuill.1850not recordedOhio City.
A photograph of the species Aphredoderus sayanus, not of this specimenAphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)1893P. KirschSt. Marys River, Rockford, Ohio
A photograph of the species Albugo platensis, not of this specimenAlbugo platensis (Speg.) Swingle1921Stevenson, John A.Van Wert
Cladosporium paeoniae Pass.1921Stevenson John A.Van Wert
A photograph of the species Puccinia iridis, not of this specimenPuccinia iridis Wallr.1921Stevenson J. A.Van Wert
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581922Price, H. (Homer)Van Wert, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendrocopos pubescens, not of this specimenDendrocopos pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766)1922Price, H. (Homer)near Paulding Co line, Blue Creek Banks, Van Wert, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1922not recordedNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1926Price, H. (Homer)Van Wert, Ohio, USA

All 121 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Abanaka: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rockford Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rockford Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Van Wert 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Schumm1.6 miles13
Dull1.7 miles13
Glenmore1.7 miles13
Ohio City4.5 miles14
Wren5.0 miles12
Willshire5.0 miles13
Middlebury6.5 miles13
Shasta (historical)6.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AbanakaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21857046The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048447. 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.