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

Academia, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Morris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43050. It stands on Curtis Run. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

Academia within Knox County

Then and now

1912 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 54 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Academia, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Academia, surveyed 1912

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.

In the 1862 county history

12,223 words on this township

The county history of 1862 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Morris Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Morris Township - 12,223 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 526 shown

Museums hold 526 specimens collected within 10 miles of Academia between 1837 and 1975: 463 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 25 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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 Fusicladium Bonord.Fusicladium Bonord.1883W. A. Kellermann
Specimen of Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) CookeNummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883Dr. W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Pestalotia De Not., 1841Pestalotia De Not., 18411883W. A. KellermannNo locality on label
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1837MüllerOhio
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1863Turati (comte), Ercole
A photograph of the species Delphinium exaltatum, not of this specimenDelphinium exaltatum Aiton1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1877not recordedunspecified
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1879Willard L. Maris
A photograph of the species Gallinula chloropus, not of this specimenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Lobelia inflata, not of this specimenLobelia inflata L.1881Andriessen, H.near Fredericktown, OH
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman

All 526 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Academia: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Goodwin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Goodwin Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Purdy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Purdy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms nearby

2 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Academia in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAcademia$35,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees on the northern side of Mt. Vernon. Scattered power outages were also reported in the area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAcademia$1,000County officials reported trees down on Liberty Rd north of Mount Vernon.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
North Mount Vernon0.7 miles13
Fleaville (historical)1.5 miles13
Clinton (historical)1.7 miles13
Mount Vernon1.7 miles13
Buckingham Court1.9 miles13
Vaughan Court2.1 miles13
South Mount Vernon2.5 miles13
Knox4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064292. 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.