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

Chuckery, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Darby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43064. The Survey maps it on the Plumwood quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Chuckery 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 Chuckery, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Chuckery, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 361 shown

Museums hold 361 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chuckery between 1918 and 1975: 351 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 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
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 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
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanBuck Creek, N Union Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1930MB TrautmanBuck Creek, N Union Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930MB TrautmanBuck Creek, N Union Township

All 361 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
Unionville Center3.3 miles12
Bridgeport3.4 miles12
Milford Center5.2 miles12
Darby Meadows5.2 miles12
Irwin5.3 miles10
Hickory Run6.3 miles12
Milford Estates7.1 miles12
Dipple7.4 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 ChuckeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5115870The 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 1039100. 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.