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

Era, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Darby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43143. It stands on Opossum Run. The Survey maps it on the Five Points quadrangle.

Era within Pickaway County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Era, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Era, surveyed 1911

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 674 shown

Museums hold 674 specimens collected within 10 miles of Era between 1901 and 1975: 649 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Abbott, R; and others, Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, Jonna, Bartley, F. 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
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1901C. S. MeadBig Darby Creek
A photograph of the species Lenzites betulinus, not of this specimenLenzites betulinus (L.) Fr.1902Kellerman, W.A.Big Darby
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1932not recordedDarbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hyla versicolor, not of this specimenHyla versicolor LeConte, 18251932Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Darbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ruellia humilis, not of this specimenRuellia humilis Nutt.1935Delzie DemareeJohn Bryan State Park, Yellow Springs
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1936F. BartleyDeercreek Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
A photograph of the species Anguilla rostrata, not of this specimenAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)1949Nibling, M. F. (Mary F.)Big Darby Creek, within Darby township, near Orient, Darby township
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181975Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, JonnaDarby Creek
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1975Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, JonnaDarby Creek

All 674 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Era in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 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
May 2016HailEra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
Derby2.6 miles13
Five Points5.6 miles14
Orient6.4 miles13
Darbyville7.4 miles13
Matville7.6 miles12
Grange Hall8.0 miles14
Crownover Mill8.5 miles13
Pherson8.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061060. 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.

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.