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

Bloomfield, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in South Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43011. The Survey maps it on the Centerburg quadrangle.

Bloomfield within Morrow 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 Bloomfield, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Bloomfield, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 191 shown

Museums hold 191 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloomfield between 1835 and 1974: 170 Animalia, 17 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Adler, K. K., C. G. Lloyd 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 Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.1890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1890Kofoid
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, s.loc.
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Ascochyta Lib., not of this specimenAscochyta Lib., 18301883Kellerman
A photograph of the species Nummularia microplaca, not of this specimenNummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Septoria ribis, not of this specimenSeptoria ribis (Lib.) Desm.1883W. A. Kellermann
A photograph of the species Uromyces Unger, not of this specimenUromyces (Link) Unger, 18331883Kellerman
Specimen of Sphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de BarySphacelotheca hydropiperis (Schumach.) de Bary1891Kofoid
Specimen of Dispira cornuta Tiegh.Dispira cornuta Tiegh.1895R. Thaxter
Specimen of Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.Stereum bicolor (Pers.) Fr.1896C. G. Lloyd

All 191 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Bloomfield in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBloomfield-Tree downed at Township Road 15 and County Road 15, about two-miles SSE of Sparta.

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Vails Corners1.5 miles10
Sparta2.5 miles9
Aaronsburg (historical)2.9 miles9
Pagetown5.0 miles10
Marengo5.2 miles9
Fargo5.7 miles10
Bennington Springs5.9 miles9
South Woodbury8.0 miles9

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 BloomfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033316The 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 1064453. 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.

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.