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

Delvin, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wabash Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45388. The Survey maps it on the North Star quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Delvin within Darke County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

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 Delvin (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Delvin (historical), surveyed 1908

Compare 1908 against another survey:

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 1880 county history

2,927 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wabash Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wabash Township - 2,927 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 154 shown

Museums hold 154 specimens collected within 10 miles of Delvin (historical) between 1915 and 1964: 148 Animalia, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by H. Price, H.L. Lewis, Householder, V. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Tilletia laevis J.G.Kühn	1919	not recorded	Versailles
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1919	s.n.	Versailles
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1919	H.L. Lewis	Versailles
Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi E
Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausonia
Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 1758	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi. E
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausoria
Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
Melospiza melodia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E of Ansonia
Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausouia
Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1915	Housholder	1 mi. E. Ausoria

All 154 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
North Star	1.9 miles	12
Yorkshire	2.1 miles	15
Osgood	2.3 miles	15
Strakers (historical)	2.4 miles	15
Brock	4.2 miles	12
Willowdell	4.5 miles	15
Frenchtown	5.5 miles	12
New Weston	5.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067520. 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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