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Bridgeport, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43040. It stands on Buck Run. The Survey maps it on the Milford Center quadrangle.

Bridgeport within Union County

Then and now

1916 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bridgeport, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Bridgeport, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 399 shown

Museums hold 399 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bridgeport between 1894 and 1975: 379 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Andrew R. Moldenke 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
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Empoasca fabae, not of this specimenEmpoasca fabae (Harris, 1841)1918H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Hydnum erinaceus, not of this specimenHydnum erinaceus Bull.1918Weir J. R.Marysville
A photograph of the species Ichneumon annulatorius, not of this specimenIchneumon annulatorius Fabricius, 17751926not recorded
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township

All 399 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
Milford Center2.5 miles12
Hickory Run2.9 miles12
Unionville Center3.3 miles12
Chuckery3.4 miles10
Milford Estates3.7 miles12
Darby Meadows4.1 miles12
Greenwood Colony4.3 miles12
Adena Pointe4.4 miles12

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 BridgeportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4966567The 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 1062661. 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.