Baldwin, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43570. The Survey maps it on the West Unity quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1913 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Alvordton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS West Unity quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Unity quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the 1905 county history
4,637 words on this townshipThe county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Jefferson Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Jefferson Township - 4,637 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 169 shownMuseums hold 169 specimens collected within 10 miles of Baldwin (historical) between 1890 and 1974: 168 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Bauer, L., C.H. Kennedy 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Northwest Township, Nettle Creek |
![]() | Plowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc. | 1890 | Woodard Edwin | Stryker |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Tiffin River, West Unity, Ohio |
![]() | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1926 | Collector(s): unknown | No specific locality recorded |
![]() | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Rana clamitans Latreille, 1801 | 1927 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio |
![]() | Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 1927 | Price, H. (Homer) | Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township |
![]() | Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township |
![]() | Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901) | 1929 | R. Bernath | Stryker |
![]() | Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township |
All 169 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Estates | 0.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hillcrest | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| West Jefferson | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| West Unity | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Holiday City | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Kunkle | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Maplecrest | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Deer Lick (historical) | 4.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1080842. 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.

























