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Blooming Grove, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in North Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44833. The Survey maps it on the Blooming Grove quadrangle.

Blooming Grove within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Blooming Grove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Blooming Grove, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 34 shown

Museums hold 34 specimens collected within 10 miles of Blooming Grove between 1920 and 1969: 33 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. G. Lloyd, Gelfellen, M., Gelfellen, M. & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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
Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. Lloyd
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1944Rausch, R. (Robert)near Richland Co. line, Troy Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Boleosoma nigrum, not of this specimenBoleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501945Gelfellen, M. & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Hyborhynchus notatus, not of this specimenHyborhynchus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township

All 34 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2004

The National Weather Service names Blooming Grove in 1 storm report between 2004 and 2004: 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBlooming Grove$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees.

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
Jackson1.6 miles13
Steam Corners3.3 miles13
Jugs Corners4.2 miles13
West Point6.0 miles13
Kings Corners6.4 miles14
Shauck6.7 miles13
Saint James6.7 miles13
Kellker (historical)6.8 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 Blooming GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4928289The 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 1064454. 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.