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

Amlin, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43016. The Survey maps it on the Hilliard quadrangle.

Amlin within Franklin County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amlin, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Amlin, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1858 county history

333 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 333 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,625 shown

Museums hold 1,625 specimens collected within 10 miles of Amlin between 1804 and 1975: 1,566 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. P., A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande 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
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1840Collector unspecified"4 miles west of Columbus"
A photograph of the species Serpoleskea confervoides, not of this specimenSerpoleskea confervoides (Brid.) Loeske1842W. S. Sullivant6 miles above Columbus
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Muriealin, JFlint?
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1877P.N. WheatonColumbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897United States Bureau of Fisheries, R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOhio, Scioto River, Franklin County
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 18191897not recordedOlentangy River, Franklin County, Franklin County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Olentangy River, within Franklin Co, Franklin County, township n/a

All 1,625 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 Amlin: 2 past producers. None of them 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
Darby Number 220 Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Darby Number 220 Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms nearby

1 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Amlin in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 1 lightning. 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
April 2020LightningAmlin$1,000Lightning hit a structure at the intersection of Cosgray and Hayden Roads in Hilliard.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Sandy Corners1.2 miles16
Hayden1.5 miles16
Ashleigh Village2.0 miles16
Hayden Run Village2.1 miles16
Estates At Hoffman Farms2.1 miles16
Avery Estates2.1 miles16
Lamb Corners2.2 miles16
Hilliard Run2.4 miles16

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 AmlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4747073The 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 1064322. 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.