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

Denmark, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Canaan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43320. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle.

Denmark within Morrow County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Denmark, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Denmark, surveyed 1913

Compare 1913 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 221 shown

Museums hold 221 specimens collected within 10 miles of Denmark between 1837 and 1975: 211 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bird, C., Breiding, G. (George), Cameron, J. B. 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 Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.1898LloydOhio
A photograph of the species Sagittaria latifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria latifolia Willd.1837Frank B
A photograph of the species Sicyos angulatus, not of this specimenSicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius1837Frank Bin civitatate Ohio
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1837not recorded
A photograph of the species Empidonax traillii, not of this specimenEmpidonax traillii (Audubon, 1828)1893Robertsunspecified
A photograph of the species Veronica officinalis, not of this specimenVeronica officinalis L.1897G. B. AshcroftRussell
A photograph of the species Carex shortiana, not of this specimenCarex shortiana Dewey & Torr.1901Kellerman W. A.
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1919W. J. CampbellEdison
A photograph of the species Rallus limicola, not of this specimenRallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 18191923Lyle D. MillerClaridon, Lake Aquilla
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1924Lyle D. MillerClaridon
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB TrautmanWhetstone Creek, trib of the Oleontangy River, Gilead Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Whetstone Creek, at Mt Gilead, ~0.4 mi E of Mount Gilead, Gilead township

All 221 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Denmark: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Caledonia PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Morrow County

Storms nearby

1 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Denmark in 1 storm report between 2002 and 2002: 1 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
November 2002HailDenmark$10,000Golf ball size hail was observed near Denmark.

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Climax3.4 miles12
Edison3.6 miles13
Surprise (historical)4.3 miles13
Mount Gilead5.5 miles13
Cardington6.1 miles13
Russell6.5 miles13
Iberia7.0 miles13
Saint James7.0 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on DenmarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133695The 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 1064528. 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.