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

Cordelia, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45817. The Survey maps it on the Rawson quadrangle.

Cordelia within Hancock County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cordelia, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cordelia, surveyed 1907

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.

In the county-history sources

10,297 words on this township

History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Orange Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Young Thompson commenced life in the woods, and all the ups and downs of a frontier residence. He has always followed the independent occupation of a farmer, and now owns a very valuable farm of two hundred and eighty acres, well improved and very productive.

Passage source: History of Hancock County [Ohio] from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Together with Remeiniscenses of Pioneer Life, Incidents, Statistical Tables, and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Orange Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 593 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 593 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cordelia between 1886 and 1973: 586 Animalia, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, CL & LC Hubbs, Collector(s): David E. Ferguson 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 Bombus lucorum, not of this specimenBombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)1886not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus bohemicus, not of this specimenBombus bohemicus Seidl, 18381887not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus pascuorum, not of this specimenBombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)1895not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton1901W. A. KellermanArlington
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1905not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus fervidus, not of this specimenBombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1906not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus variabilis (Cresson, 1872)1907not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus griseocollis, not of this specimenBombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1911not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus auricomus (Robertson, 1903)1912not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631913not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
Bombus fraternus (Smith, 1854)1913not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631914not recordedUrbanaBoneyard Creek;Vermilion River;Salt Fork of Vermilion River

All 593 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
Cannonsburg1.1 miles12
Jenera3.1 miles14
Mount Cory3.2 miles12
Hassan (historical)3.9 miles12
Rawson4.1 miles12
New Stark5.2 miles12
Martinstown (historical)7.2 miles14
Arlington7.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065510. 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.

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