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

Avondale, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stokes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43331. It stands on Blackhawk Run. The Survey maps it on the Roundhead quadrangle.

Avondale within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Avondale, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Avondale, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 342 shown

Museums hold 342 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avondale between 1909 and 1975: 307 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830)Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830)1941Theodore Henry Frison
A photograph of the species Ganoderma lucidum, not of this specimenGanoderma lucidum (Curtis) P.Karst.1909Stover W. G.; Fink G. C.Lewistown
A photograph of the species Dryocampa rubicunda, not of this specimenDryocampa rubicunda Fabricius, 17931916not recordedMuchinippi Creek, Myers Rd RM 4.8, 2.2 miles southwest of Lakeview OH, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Cuscuta gronovii, not of this specimenCuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardOak Island, near Chippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Pedicularis lanceolata, not of this specimenPedicularis lanceolata Michx.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardChippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1927Fullerton, H. T.Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio
Pioscelus borealis (Ashmead, 1891)1927Beamer, Raymondunspecified
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork Great Miami River, within Logan Co, Logan County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork Great Miami River, within Logan Co, Logan County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Indian Lake, Hatchery Pond, 0.5 mi N of Lakeview, Stokes township

All 342 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 Avondale: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Duff QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Duff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Duff Sand Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms nearby

1 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Avondale in 1 storm report between 2013 and 2013: 1 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindAvondale$2,000A few trees were downed on Lakeshore Drive on Shawnee Island in the Indian Lake area due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Island View0.7 miles17
Chippewa Park0.9 miles17
O'Connor Point2.0 miles16
Orchard Island2.9 miles16
Lakeview Meadows3.2 miles16
Russells Point3.6 miles16
Lakeview3.6 miles16
New Richland5.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1084643. 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.