Converse, Ohio

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.

1911 1986

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.

• 1911 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Spencerville quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

Museums hold 48 specimens collected within 10 miles of Converse between 1837 and 1975: 46 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Foster, T. (Todd), Frank, Holzer, L. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Geranium maculatum L.	1837	Frank	Van Wert Co., Ohio
	Lophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.	1865	Holzer, L.	Delphos
	Carpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Cyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Auglaize River triburary, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Little Auglaize River, within Jennings township, near Venedocia, Jennings township
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Fundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp
	Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820	1929	MB Trautman	Little Auglaize River, at Venedocia, York Twp

All 48 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Converse: 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.

Every working recorded in Van Wert County

The National Weather Service names Converse in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Van Wert County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039324. 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.