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Amsden, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44830. The Survey maps it on the Bascom quadrangle.

Amsden within Seneca County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amsden, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Amsden, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 16 shown

Museums hold 16 specimens collected within 10 miles of Amsden between 1901 and 1969: 13 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Chidester, D. (Dale), G.T. Jones, George T. Jones 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 Equisetum hyemale L.Equisetum hyemale L.1969George T. Jones3 miles north of Tiffin, Clinton township
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631901not recordedKansas
Eratoneura basilaris (Say, 1825)1915not recorded
A photograph of the species Erythroneura vitifex, not of this specimenErythroneura vitifex Fitch, 18561915not recorded
A photograph of the species Ascaris equorum, not of this specimenAscaris equorum Goeze, 17821928Kinsley LabsKansas City
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandusky River, near Fort Seneca, ~2.5 mi SW of Old Fort, Pleasant township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandusky River, near Fort Seneca, ~2.5 mi SW of Old Fort, Pleasant township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandusky River, near Fort Seneca, ~2.5 mi SW of Old Fort, Pleasant township
A photograph of the species Sylvilagus floridanus, not of this specimenSylvilagus floridanus (J.A.Allen, 1890)1939Goodpaster, W.Fostoria
A photograph of the species Minytrema melanops, not of this specimenMinytrema melanops (Rafinesque, 1820)1950Chidester, D. (Dale)Wolf Creek, Sec 19 of Liberty township, ~1.9 mi E of Amsden, Liberty township

All 16 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Amsden in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindAmsden$100,000Thunderstorm winds downed dozens of trees across northern Seneca County. Scattered power outages were reported.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindAmsden$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed three large tree limbs.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAmsden-Multiple trees and a few power poles downed in Amsden area.
June 2022HailAmsden-Quarter-size hail in Amsden.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAmsden-Thunderstorm winds downed one large tree south of Amsden.

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Iler2.2 miles11
Angus2.7 miles11
Kansas3.1 miles11
Rehoboth3.6 miles11
Longley4.9 miles11
Raineys (historical)5.1 miles11
Bettsville5.3 miles11
Linden (historical)5.4 miles11

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 AmsdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4748778The 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 1060821. 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.

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.