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

Blanco, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44412. It stands on Charley Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Milton quadrangle.

Blanco within Mahoning County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blanco, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Blanco, surveyed 1908

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 68 shown

Museums hold 68 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blanco between 1901 and 1975: 57 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B. J. Crandall, B.J.Crandall 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 glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) PeckAgaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.1964B.J.CrandallShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Parascalops breweri, not of this specimenParascalops breweri (Bachman, 1842)1901not recordedEllsworth
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1909Vickers, E.W.Mahoning River, Berlin Twp
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis f. obtusilobata (Schkuhr) Gilbert1910Vickers, E.W.Ellsworth
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Chelydra serpentina, not of this specimenChelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Meander Creek tributary, within Ellsworth township, near Canfield, Ellsworth township

All 68 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
Lake Milton1.1 miles11
Fredericksburg1.6 miles11
Canyon Park2.0 miles11
Sunset Beach2.0 miles11
Shillings Mill2.3 miles11
Craig Beach2.5 miles11
Shiltown2.6 miles11
Pricetown3.4 miles13

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 BlancoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133556The 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 1062650. 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.