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

Big Springs, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rushcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43347. The Survey maps it on the Silver Creek quadrangle.

Big Springs within Logan County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Big Springs, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Big Springs, 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 133 shown

Museums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Big Springs between 1862 and 1975: 113 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Rhytisma Fr., not of this specimenRhytisma Fr.1901W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Cercospora maianthemi, not of this specimenCercospora maianthemi Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel1902Kellerman, William AshbrookWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.1908Clinton; BirdMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1927Fullerton, H. T.Huntsville, Logan Co., Ohio
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)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork Great Miami River, within Logan Co, Logan County, township n/a

All 133 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Van1.1 miles11
Rushsylvania3.3 miles13
Walnut Grove5.1 miles13
Horton5.4 miles13
Marl City5.4 miles13
Northwood5.5 miles13
Belle Center6.0 miles11
Harper6.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064436. 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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