Elizabethtown, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44883. It stands on East Branch Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bloomville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1906 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Tiffin quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Bloomville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bloomville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bloomville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bloomville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Bloomville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 287 shownMuseums hold 287 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elizabethtown (historical) between 1891 and 1969: 252 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 15 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Babcock D. C., Baker O. E. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Corythucha bellula Gibson, 1918 | 1917 | C. Drake | Tiffin |
![]() | Puccinia smilacis Schwein. | 1940 | Cooke, William Bridge | near Rock Creek near Jackson |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum var. obliquum (Muhl.) Clute | 1969 | Jones, G.T. | Moist deciduous woods Thompson Twp., 1 mi. n. of West Lodi. |
![]() | Parus bicolor bicolor Sibley & Monroe, 1990 | 1891 | Cross, W | Tiffin |
![]() | Pluvialis dominica dominica (P.L.S.Müller, 1776) | 1891 | Cross, W | Tiffin |
![]() | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
![]() | Cambarus rusticus Girard, 1852 | 1893 | United States Fish Commission | Tiffin, Sandusky River |
![]() | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1893 | Woolman | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
![]() | Hypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817) | 1893 | not recorded | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
![]() | Micropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 1802 | 1893 | not recorded | Sandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio |
All 287 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
2 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Elizabethtown (historical): 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomville Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Bloomville Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockaway | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Swander | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Bloomville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Melmore | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Republic | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Scipio | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Stephens | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Tiffin | 6.7 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060676. 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.
























