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

Bowlusville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 45502. It stands on Cedar Run. The Survey maps it on the Urbana West quadrangle.

Bowlusville within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

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.

Topographic sheet of Bowlusville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bowlusville, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1,400 shown

Museums hold 1,400 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bowlusville between 1838 and 1975: 1,059 Animalia, 258 Plantae, 64 Fungi, 11 Unrecorded, 7 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross 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 Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.1874Beardslee, H.C.Cedar Swamp
Specimen of Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.JaegerBrachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger1926E.C. LeonardChapmans Creek, 1 mile east of Thackery
A photograph of the species Acer negundo, not of this specimenAcer negundo L.1838Samples, JohnUrbana
A photograph of the species Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris, not of this specimenPylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck1842W. S. SullivantCedar Swamps, 6 mi S of Urbana
A photograph of the species Radula complanata, not of this specimenRadula complanata (L.) Dumort.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantprope Urbana Ohionis
A photograph of the species Radula obconica, not of this specimenRadula obconica Sull.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Urbana
A photograph of the species Cratoneuron filicinum, not of this specimenCratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce1875H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus, not of this specimenRhytidiadelphus triquetrus (Hedw.) Warnst.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Sphagnum girgensohnii, not of this specimenSphagnum girgensohnii Russow1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Trichocolea tomentella, not of this specimenTrichocolea tomentella (Ehrh.) Dumort.1875H. J. BiddlecomeUrbana

All 1,400 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bowlusville: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. 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
County Line Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
County Line Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roberts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Urbana # 215Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Champaign County

Storms nearby

10 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Bowlusville in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 WindBowlusville$15,000Several trees were downed, included a couple that fell onto houses.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBowlusville$5,000An outbuilding had a section of its roof removed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBowlusville$5,000A tree fell onto a car in the 2600 block of E County Line Road.
February 2018FloodBowlusville$3,000A vehicle hydroplaned and went into a ditch. The water carried the vehicle downstream. The occupant was able to exit the vehicle before it was carried away.
March 2008FloodBowlusville$3,000State Route 54 was flooded and closed in Urbana.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBowlusville$1,000A tree was knocked down along a portion of State Route 560 near the Champaign/Clark County line.
August 2019Funnel CloudBowlusville-Law enforcement who were located northeast of Springfield, saw a funnel cloud to their northwest.
June 2015Heavy RainBowlusville-Water was covering East County Line Road. The water was more than a foot deep.
June 2015Heavy RainBowlusville-High water was reported covering roads in the area.
July 2015HailBowlusville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Terre Haute4.5 miles12
Powhattan5.9 miles14
Westville6.1 miles15
Urbana6.2 miles15
Thackery6.7 miles12
Nettleton (historical)7.5 miles15
Catawba Station7.8 miles14
Darnell8.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064472. 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.