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

Bloomer, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45318. The Survey maps it on the Versailles quadrangle.

Bloomer within Miami County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloomer, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bloomer, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1880 county history

41,096 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newberry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newberry Township - 41,096 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 252 shown

Museums hold 252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomer between 1897 and 1967: 241 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.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 unnamed1897F. L. StevensSugar Grove.
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. StevensSugar Grove
Specimen of Phyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.WinterPhyllosticta podophylli (M.A.Curtis) G.Winter1897F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.Potamogeton amplifolius Tuck.1899Young, WU
A photograph of the species Bothriocephalus claviceps, not of this specimenBothriocephalus claviceps (Goeze, 1782) Rudolphi, 18101926R. BanghamPiqua
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus ardens, not of this specimenLythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1929MB TrautmanStillwater River at Covington, Newberry Twp
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanSmall tributary of the Stillwater River, northern Newberry Township

All 252 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 Bloomer: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wise Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wise Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Miami County

Storms nearby

2 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Bloomer in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 1 hail, 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBloomer$1,000Large tree limbs were downed north of Bradford due to thunderstorm winds.
August 1998HailBloomer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami 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
Abe2.6 miles15
Polo3.1 miles15
Clayton3.2 miles13
Bradford3.9 miles13
Summitville (historical)4.9 miles15
Covington5.8 miles13
West Covington5.9 miles13
Meyers (historical)6.4 miles15

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 BloomerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133562The 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 1064451. 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.