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

Brehm, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45882. The Survey maps it on the Erastus quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Brehm within Mercer County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Brehm (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Brehm (historical), surveyed 1914

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.

In the 1907 county history

858 words on this township

The county history of 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 858 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 174 shown

Museums hold 174 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brehm (historical) between 1840 and 1973: 172 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C. Clark, C. Clark & R. Rhoades 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 Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)Argia tibialis (Rambur, 1842)1942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
Specimen of Lestes dryas Kirby, 1890Lestes dryas Kirby, 18901942H. PriceSt. Mary's River
Specimen of Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)1944H. PriceWabash River
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1840J. Wolle, D. Blum
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891892Landis, H. A.Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aphredoderus sayanus, not of this specimenAphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)1893P. KirschSt. Marys River, Rockford, Ohio
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1909Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Orthotylus ramus, not of this specimenOrthotylus ramus Knight, 19271918R. Hussey[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Perlesta lagoi, not of this specimenPerlesta lagoi Stark, 19891918not recorded
A photograph of the species Ceuthophilus uhleri, not of this specimenCeuthophilus uhleri Scudder, 18621921Hubbell, T. H.Mercer Co., OH
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia (Linnaeus, 1766)1923Price, H. (Homer)Grand Reservoir SW of Celina, Mercer, Ohio, USA
Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin, 1789)1923Price, H. (Homer)Merco Co Reservoir, Mercer, Ohio, USA

All 174 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Bursville1.0 miles12
Hinton2.2 miles13
Chattanooga2.3 miles13
Scudder3.3 miles13
Striptown (historical)3.8 miles13
Skeels Crossroads3.9 miles13
Durbin4.7 miles13
Wabash5.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067340. 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.

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