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

Appleton, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Bennington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43031. The Survey maps it on the Fredonia quadrangle.

Appleton within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Appleton, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Appleton, surveyed 1908

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 1,373 shown

Museums hold 1,373 specimens collected within 10 miles of Appleton between 1881 and 1975: 1,343 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, A. R. Elliott 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 Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1863not recordedUSA, NNO-, OHIO*, GHOTA RIVER ,
A photograph of the species Melanitta nigra, not of this specimenMelanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)1881not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1886not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981888not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown

All 1,373 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Appleton in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
March 2020Flash FloodAppleton$3,000A water rescue occurred near the intersection of Van Fossen Road and Shipley Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAppleton$1,000A tree was downed onto Cooper Road near Appleton Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindAppleton$1,000Two small trees were downed along with several large branches from larger trees.
August 2014Tornado (EF0)Appleton-Video from the public confirmed a very brief and weak tornado on the ground for a few seconds with minimal damage.
August 2017HailAppleton-no account filed
August 2017HailAppleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Decrow Corners1.4 miles11
Barrick Corners3.7 miles11
Cokesbury Corners4.0 miles11
Lock4.3 miles10
New Way4.4 miles11
Croton4.5 miles11
Concord4.7 miles11
Pattons Corners5.3 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 AppletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033082The 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 1037457. 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.