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

Batson, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45880. The Survey maps it on the Payne quadrangle.

Batson within Paulding County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

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.

Topographic sheet of Batson, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Batson, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 480 shown

Museums hold 480 specimens collected within 10 miles of Batson between 1909 and 1960: 480 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C L CLARK FROM HOMER PRICE, Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey, H. Price 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
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1909Collector(s): Harold H. BaileyPayne
A photograph of the species Geothlypis trichas, not of this specimenGeothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766)1915Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Passerherbulus henslowii, not of this specimenPasserherbulus henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1915Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1915Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1916Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1916not recordedPayne
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581916Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221916H. PriceOHIO: Paulding County; Payne
A photograph of the species Falco sparverius, not of this specimenFalco sparverius Linnaeus, 17581916Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1916Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1916Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Actitis macularius, not of this specimenActitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766)1917Price, H. (Homer)Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio

All 480 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Batson in 1 storm report between 2008 and 2008: 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBatson$40,000Emergency management officials reported that one trailer home was blown off its slab and wrapped around a pole, with another trailer home blown away. Other reports of roof damage were received in the county but no specific locations were given. Damage is estimated at $40,000 for the cost of the trailers.

Every storm recorded in Paulding 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
Logtown1.0 miles12
McGill1.5 miles11
Sophia (historical)2.0 miles12
Baldwin3.0 miles11
Tipton4.0 miles12
Payne4.2 miles12
Smiley (historical)4.8 miles11
Worstville5.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1037678. 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.