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

Earley, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hopewell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45822. The Survey maps it on the Celina quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Earley within Mercer County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Earley (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Earley (historical), surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1907 county history

1,215 words on this township

The county history of 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hopewell Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hopewell Township - 1,215 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 279 shown

Museums hold 279 specimens collected within 10 miles of Earley (historical) between 1840 and 1975: 271 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, Adler, K. K., Brown, H P 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 Carex grayi J.CareyCarex grayi J.Carey1903Wetzstein A.
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1920R. RhoadesSt. Marys Lake at Celina
Specimen of unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1840J. Wolle, D. Blum
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1886Meek and HarrisMontezuma
A photograph of the species Ardea alba, not of this specimenArdea alba egretta Gmelin, 17891888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Ceryle alcyon, not of this specimenCeryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Cistothorus palustris, not of this specimenCistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 19021888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1888J. R. SlonakerCelina
A photograph of the species Porzana carolina, not of this specimenPorzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1888J.R.S.Celina

All 279 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tama2.1 miles13
Mercer3.0 miles13
Shively3.2 miles13
Summit Court3.7 miles14
Abbeywood Estates3.8 miles14
Celina4.4 miles14
Mariners Point5.0 miles14
Sleepy Hollow Acres5.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065492. 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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