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

Cromley, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43103. It stands on Little Walnut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cromley within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cromley (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Cromley (historical), surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cromley (historical) between 2009 and 2009, burning about 0 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,597 shown

Museums hold 2,597 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cromley (historical) between 1829 and 1975: 2,530 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Abbott, R; and others 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 Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensBig Walnut.
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans elegans Audubon, 18341829Florence, A. (Arledge)Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981877Jones, H. (Howard)Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 17831879Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Setophaga ruticilla, not of this specimenSetophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081881Jones, H. (Howard)Scioto River bottoms near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, not of this specimenPetrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817)1881Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,597 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cromley (historical): 3 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
Raleigh Spradlin Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sturm and Dillard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sturm and Dillard Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pickaway 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
Brandon Court0.7 miles11
Ashville1.0 miles11
Suburban Village1.2 miles11
Rhoads (historical)1.2 miles11
Millport1.4 miles11
Little Chicago1.4 miles11
Little Walnut1.5 miles11
Griffith (historical)1.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1080600. 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.