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

Bismarck, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44811. The Survey maps it on the Flat Rock quadrangle.

Bismarck within Huron 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 Bismarck, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bismarck, surveyed 1915

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 304 shown

Museums hold 304 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bismarck between 1893 and 1974: 208 Animalia, 92 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Baumgartner, L., Class 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 Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1898[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedMonroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
Salix alba L.1895Moseley, E.L.northern Ohio
Grus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Mills, W. C.Huron, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1908Jennings, O.E.At Chicago Juction

All 304 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
Havana2.9 miles12
Weavers Corners3.2 miles12
Pontiac3.7 miles12
Hunts Corners4.6 miles12
Standardsburg5.7 miles12
Centerton5.9 miles12
Relief (historical)6.4 miles12
Steuben6.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064440. 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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