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

Converse Station, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jennings Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45887. The Survey maps it on the Elgin quadrangle.

Converse Station within Van Wert County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Converse Station, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Converse Station, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 45 shown

Museums hold 45 specimens collected within 10 miles of Converse Station between 1865 and 1975: 44 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Foster, T. (Todd), Holzer, L., MB Trautman 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 Lophanthus nepetoides, not of this specimenLophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.1865Holzer, L.Delphos
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Cyprinus carpio, not of this specimenCyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 17581929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Little Auglaize River, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanLittle Auglaize River, W central Washington Twp

All 45 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Converse Station: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Suever Stone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Van Wert 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
Converse1.1 miles12
Monticello2.1 miles12
Elgin3.3 miles12
Venedocia4.6 miles14
Jonestown6.0 miles14
MacAdam (historical)7.8 miles14
Buena Vista (historical)8.0 miles14
Shasta (historical)8.8 miles14

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 Q122543158The 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 1062551. 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.