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

Bucks Corner, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mississinawa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45846. It stands on Gray Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cosmos quadrangle.

Bucks Corner within Darke County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bucks Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bucks Corner, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1880 county history

1,643 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mississinawa Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mississinawa Township - 1,643 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 83 shown

Museums hold 83 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bucks Corner between 1915 and 1964: 81 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Alexander, Athearn, Herbert D., B. Montgomery 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
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1915Householder, V.Ausonia, 3 mi W
A photograph of the species Melospiza melodia, not of this specimenMelospiza melodia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)1915Householder, V.Ansonia
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger rufiventer É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 18031916M A HousholderANSONIA
A photograph of the species Sus scrofa, not of this specimenSus scrofa Linnaeus, 17581917V H HousholderANSONIA
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Union City
A photograph of the species Septoria tritici, not of this specimenSeptoria tritici Roberge1919Lewis H. L.Union City
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB TrautmanStillwater River, NE corner of Brown Twnp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Wabash River, within Ex southeast Granville township, near Burkettsville, Granville township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Stillwater River, within Brown township, near Ansonia, Brown township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Stillwater River, within Brown township, near Ansonia, Brown township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1929MB TrautmanStillwater River, NE corner of Brown Twnp

All 83 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
North Dayton1.5 miles16
Rose Hill2.6 miles12
Cosmos2.9 miles16
Lightsville3.7 miles12
Buckhorn Corner5.9 miles19
Hunchberger Corners6.2 miles11
New Weston7.3 miles12
Hetzlerville (historical)7.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062674. 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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