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

Danbury, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Danbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43452. The Survey maps it on the Castalia quadrangle.

Danbury within Ottawa County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Danbury, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Danbury, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 3,109 shown

Museums hold 3,109 specimens collected within 10 miles of Danbury between 1865 and 1975: 2,093 Animalia, 897 Plantae, 105 Fungi, 7 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. F. Satterthwait, A. J. Eames 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 Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)1898not recordedPortage River
Specimen of Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1898United States Fish CommissionSandusky Bay
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1898United States Fish Commission & W. KendallSandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
A photograph of the species Hydroprogne caspia, not of this specimenHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)1865Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Artemisia caudata, not of this specimenArtemisia caudata Michx.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium Grev., not of this specimenCylindrosporium Grev., 18221887Scribner F. L.Kelleys Island
A photograph of the species Laestadia bidwellii, not of this specimenLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1887F.L. Scribner
A photograph of the species Microsphaera ravenelii, not of this specimenMicrosphaera ravenelii Berk.1887F. S. EarleCatawba Island
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1894C. RutterEast end Sandusky Bay, Ohio

All 3,109 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Danbury: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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
Geawe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
American Mine No 2Gypsum-AnhydriteProducer
American Mine Number 2 QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Lower MineGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
U.S. Gypsum MillGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
United States Gypsum Co. MineGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Ottawa County

Storms nearby

2 since 2007

The National Weather Service names Danbury in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 2 hail. 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
July 2014HailDanbury-Penny sized hail was observed.
March 2007HailDanbury-Nickel size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Ottawa 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
Violet (historical)1.8 miles13
Gypsum2.4 miles15
Piccola (historical)2.9 miles13
Harbor Acres3.4 miles13
Foxhaven4.5 miles13
Hickory Grove4.8 miles15
Mineyahta-on-the Bay4.8 miles13
Gem Beach4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064505. 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.