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.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Blooming Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Blooming Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Blooming Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Blooming Grove quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 34 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke | 1920 | C. G. Lloyd | ||
![]() | Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1944 | Rausch, R. (Robert) | near Richland Co. line, Troy Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Boleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850 | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819 | 1945 | Gelfellen, M. | East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township |
![]() | Hyborhynchus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1945 | Gelfellen, 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 2004The 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blooming Grove | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Steam Corners | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Jugs Corners | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| West Point | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Kings Corners | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Shauck | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Saint James | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Kellker (historical) | 6.8 miles | 13 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4928289 | The 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.























