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

Chelsea Glen, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Columbus City. It lies in ZIP code area 43110. It stands on Pickering Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reynoldsburg quadrangle.

Chelsea Glen within Franklin County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chelsea Glen, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Chelsea Glen, surveyed 1925

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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In the 1858 county history

895,918 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Columbus City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chelsea Glen between 2010 and 2010, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 987 shown

Museums hold 987 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chelsea Glen between 1840 and 1975: 942 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anon., Auten, B. Fink 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 Sorghum bicolor (L.) MoenchSorghum bicolor (L.) Moench1900Jennings, O.E.Columbus, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Chaerophyllum procumbens, not of this specimenChaerophyllum procumbens (L.) Crantz1840H WardColumbus
A photograph of the species Hypericum gentianoides, not of this specimenHypericum gentianoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1840William Starling SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Campylium stellatum, not of this specimenCampylium stellatum (Hedw.) Lange & C.E.O.Jensen1841W. S. Sullivant2 mi S of Columbus
A photograph of the species Plagiochila porelloides, not of this specimenPlagiochila porelloides (Torr. ex Nees) Lindenb.1845W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Campylodiscus costatus, not of this specimenCampylodiscus costatus W.Smith, 18511858Anon.Columbus
A photograph of the species Phascum crassinervium, not of this specimenPhascum crassinervium Schwägr.1866Lesquereux, LeoColumbus
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1890C. M. WeedColumbus: Ex. Sta. Gardens
A photograph of the species Dermatocarpon miniatum, not of this specimenDermatocarpon miniatum (L.) W.Mann1892Bogue, E.E.Big Walnut Creek, Blacklick east of Columbus
A photograph of the species Gentianopsis crinita, not of this specimenGentianopsis crinita (Froel.) Ma1892E. M. WilcoxNear Columbus, S of city
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBlack Lick, Franklin County, Ohio

All 987 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 Chelsea Glen: 2 past producers. None of them 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
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Big Walnut Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Brice Meadows0.3 miles16
White Oak Park0.4 miles16
Gender Park0.5 miles16
Essex Place0.5 miles16
Village At Schirm Farms0.8 miles16
Winchester Highlands1.1 miles16
Meadows At Winchester1.1 miles16
Lehman Meadows1.3 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122598685The 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 2771448. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.