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

Carters, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deer Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43162. The Survey maps it on the West Jefferson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Carters within Madison County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carters (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Carters (historical), surveyed 1907

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 633 shown

Museums hold 633 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carters (historical) between 1885 and 1975: 544 Animalia, 58 Fungi, 31 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, B. Fink, Betz, E. 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 Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.1893Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.1894E. BogueGeorgesville.
Specimen of Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Chiloscyphus ascendens, not of this specimenChiloscyphus ascendens (Wilson & Hook.) Sull.1885W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)London, Madison, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Tortella humilis, not of this specimenTortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Anomodon minor, not of this specimenAnomodon minor (Hedw.) Lindb.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Hedwigia ciliata, not of this specimenHedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1891W. C. WernerGeorgesville
Leskea gracilescens Hedw.1891W. C. Werner
A photograph of the species Andropogon gerardi, not of this specimenAndropogon gerardi Vitman1892Werner, W.C.Georgeville

All 633 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
Willows (historical)1.6 miles13
Lafayette2.3 miles14
Roberts (historical)3.0 miles13
Gillivan3.7 miles13
Rupert4.0 miles13
Oakwood Acres4.0 miles13
Wilson (historical)4.2 miles14
Chevington Place4.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067460. 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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