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

Catawba Station, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43044. The Survey maps it on the Urbana East quadrangle.

Catawba Station 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 Catawba Station, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Catawba Station, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1,199 shown

Museums hold 1,199 specimens collected within 10 miles of Catawba Station between 1838 and 1975: 880 Animalia, 245 Plantae, 58 Fungi, 11 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. R. Gaufin, A. T. Hotchkiss 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
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
A photograph of the species Bryoandersonia illecebra, not of this specimenBryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana

All 1,199 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Catawba Station: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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
Roberts PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Roberts Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Champaign County

Storms nearby

2 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Catawba Station in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCatawba Station$2,000Trees and power lines were reported down with one tree falling onto a power line.
August 2022FloodCatawba Station-High water was reported at the intersection of State Route 56 and Ross Drive.

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
Powhattan2.2 miles14
Mutual3.5 miles14
Mechanicsburg5.8 miles12
Five Points7.5 miles12
Urbana7.6 miles15
Bowlusville7.8 miles15
Crimville (historical)7.9 miles13
Hagenbaugh (historical)8.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060930. 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.