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

Berkshire, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Berkshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43074. It stands on Butler Run. The Survey maps it on the Kilbourne quadrangle.

Berkshire within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Berkshire, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Berkshire, surveyed 1915

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 2,746 shown

Museums hold 2,746 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berkshire between 1850 and 1975: 2,561 Animalia, 94 Plantae, 89 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan 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 crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.CurtisHypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tympanuchus americanus, not of this specimenTympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852)1874not recordedMonroeville, Ohio, USA

All 2,746 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Berkshire: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Galena PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

7 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Berkshire in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
September 2000Flash FloodBerkshire$10,000Heavy rainfall caused flooded roads.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$10,000Measured winds of 60 miles an hour knocked down several large trees, some feel on power lines and across roads. Ten thousand three hundred people temporarily lost power.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$3,000A few trees were downed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$2,000A few trees were downed.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$2,000Three large trees were downed near Interstate 71 and Route 37 due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindBerkshire$1,000A large tree was downed at North Galena Road and U.S. Route 36.
July 2013Heavy RainBerkshire-Lingering high water due to heavy rainfall was reported at the entrance to the Bent Tree Golf Club.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Rome1.3 miles14
Alum Creek1.9 miles11
Cheshire Woods2.1 miles14
Estates At Sherman Lake2.4 miles11
Sunbury Estates2.4 miles10
Sunbury Meadows2.5 miles14
Hidden Creek2.6 miles14
Sherman Lakes2.7 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 BerkshireAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133533The 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 1064418. 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.