Bostelmans Corners, Ohio

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.

1908 1986

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.

• 1908 USGS Napoleon quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Napoleon quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Napoleon West quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Napoleon West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bostelmans Corners between 2020 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Glenwood Estates
• Lueneburg
• Valleybrook Estates
• Gerald
• Napoleon
• Countryside Estates

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Museums hold 148 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bostelmans Corners between 1893 and 1974: 133 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Dabney Hart, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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
	Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.	1919	W.G. Stover	Liberty Center
	Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)	1893	PH Kirsch	Maumee River, at State dam, 4 mi below Defiance
	Dromogomphus spinosus Selys, 1854	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Dromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Libellula luctuosa Burmeister, 1839	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Perithemis tenera (Say, 1840)	1898	J. Hine	Napoleon
	Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Liberty Center
	Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Ridgeville Corners
	Puccinia graminis Pers.	1919	Lewis H. L.	Napoleon
	Roccus chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Maumee River, within Henry Co, Henry County, township n/a
	Scalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832)	1927	Hoffman, C. P.	Washington Twp., Henry Co., Ohio, USA
	Acris crepitans Baird, 1854	1931	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Murphy, M. K.	Washington Twp.: ext. SE, Henry Co., Ohio

All 148 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bostelmans Corners: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Henry County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1806391. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.