Ballou, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1914 1986

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.

• 1914 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1914 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Troy quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 129 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ballou between 1897 and 1964: 109 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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
	Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub	1902	Grover, F.O.	Opens woods, N. Amherst, near F & D Quarry
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1939	not recorded	Miami River
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1897	Selby A. D.	Kirkwood
	Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.	1909	Fisher G. Clyde	Sidney
	Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1914	Russell A. B.	Sidney
	Phyllosticta vincae-minoris Bres. & Krieg.	1914	The Wagner Park Nursery Co.	Sidney
	Hybopsis micropogon (Cope, 1865)	1920	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Great Miami River, 2.5 mi north of Sidney, ~2.4 mi SW of Port Jefferson, Perry township
	Ranidae	1930	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	Tawawa Creek, Green Twp., Shelby Co., Ohio
	Orthotrichum strangulatum P.Beauv.	1937	R. T. Wareham & A. J. Sharp	Miami River south of Sidney
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1938	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Mosquito Creek, within Green township (near rifle range?), near Port Jefferson, Green township
	Carex blanda Dewey	1938	R. E. Shanks	Clinton Twp., Tawawa.
	Carex cristatella Britton	1938	R. E. Shanks	Along Miami River, Salem Twp.

All 129 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062641. 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.

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