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Croton, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Hartford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43013. The Survey maps it on the Johnstown quadrangle. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Croton within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Croton, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Croton, surveyed 1908

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 864 shown

Museums hold 864 specimens collected within 10 miles of Croton between 1881 and 1975: 848 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, Bales, B. R. 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 Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.1896A. P. Morgan; EllisPreston
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1863not recordedUSA, NNO-, OHIO*, GHOTA RIVER ,
A photograph of the species Melanitta nigra, not of this specimenMelanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)1881not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1886not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981888not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221894Mills, W. C.Ohio, USA
Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1925Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio, USA
Macrophya flavicoxae1926C.H. Kennedy

All 864 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

9 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Croton in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Thunderstorm WindCroton$6,000Numerous trees were downed at two properties on Sinkey Road.
July 1997Tornado (F1)Croton$5,000A tornado touched down briefly downing a few trees and damaging corn crops.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCroton$5,000Trees were downed.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindCroton$3,000A tree fell onto power lines and caught fire in Hartford due thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Flash FloodCroton$2,000Heavy rainfall flooded Appleton Road.
May 2020FloodCroton-High water was reported on School Lane Road near County Line Road.
June 2018FloodCroton-High water was reported on School Lane Road.
June 2014FloodCroton-High standing water was reported over Fairgrounds Road, School Lane Road, and Croton Road due to heavy rainfall.
June 1994HailCroton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Appleton4.5 miles11
Green (historical)4.8 miles11
Lock4.9 miles10
Decrow Corners5.8 miles11
Johnstown5.9 miles11
Concord7.2 miles11
Barrick Corners8.2 miles11
Cokesbury Corners8.5 miles11

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 Q49348053The 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 1085655. 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.

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.