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 sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 printed 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.

1911 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
1913 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Era quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Five Points quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,893 words on this township

HISTORY OF PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO AND REPERESENTATIVE CITIZENS, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Darby Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township was first settled about 1800. The greater part of the township was taken up in large tracts and until very recent years large estates were the rule, maity of which were leased to tenants. The development of the township therefore was not so rapid as was the case in the townships east of the Scioto River. Darby township is situated in the northwest corner of Pickaway County, being north of Monroe and Muhlenberg townships and west of Scioto and Muhlenberg. The greater part of the eastern boundary is formed by Darby Creek. For a long period prior to 1878, however, this was not the case, as the eastern boundary of the township extended some miles beyond the creek. For the convenience of the township organizations, Darby Creek on October 14, 1878, was made the dividing line between Darby and Scioto townships. This creek, which might well be termed a river, has a number of tributaries that traverse the township. Greenbrier Run, the principal of these, rises in the northwest corner of the township, flows in a southeasterly direction and empties into Darby Creek just below the township line. Opossum Run, which rises in Madison County, enters Darby township near the northwest corner, flows south along the west line and finally empties into Deer Creek near Era. Van Buskirk's Run, another tributary of Deer Creek, the greater part of whose length lies in Monroe township, has its beginning in Darby township. The surface of the township is very level except along the water-courses, where it is slightly rolling.

Passage source: HISTORY OF PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO AND REPERESENTATIVE CITIZENS, published 1906.

A Methodist Episcopal Church was or-- ganized at Derby soon after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was run through Darby township and Derby made a station. The church building was erected in 1887 at a cost of about $2,000. The church has 117 members, while the attendance at Sunday-school is about 125.. The Sunday-school superintendent is I. C. Hall. The pastors of this church have beer the following: Revs. W. S. Fisher, H. R. Pfaltzgraf, A. B. Sniff, William Benzing, N. C. Patterson and J. H. Mindling, who is the present incumbent and also has charge of the churches at Yankeetown and Era.

Passage source: HISTORY OF PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO AND REPERESENTATIVE CITIZENS, published 1906.

From about 1844 until the time of the Civil War there was a class of the United Brethren in Christ located at Era, then known as Palestine. A frame meeting-house was erected here about 1850 which stood for many years. Questions of a political nature caused dissension and division among the members, and the society was finally broken up.

Passage source: HISTORY OF PICKAWAY COUNTY, OHIO AND REPERESENTATIVE CITIZENS, published 1906.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Darby Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 674 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.	1901	C. S. Mead	Big Darby Creek
Lenzites betulinus (L.) Fr.	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Big Darby
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)	1932	not recorded	Darbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1932	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Darbyville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
Ruellia humilis Nutt.	1935	Delzie Demaree	John Bryan State Park, Yellow Springs
Anisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.	1936	F. Bartley	Deercreek Township
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1939	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Big Darby Creek,~2.6 miles dst SR 316, ~2 miles SSE of Darbyville OH, Muhlenberg Township
Anguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817)	1949	Nibling, M. F. (Mary F.)	Big Darby Creek, within Darby township, near Orient, Darby township
Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1975	Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, Jonna	Darby Creek
Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1975	Abbott, R; vonder Heyden, Jonna	Darby Creek

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

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Era in 1 storm report in 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2016	Hail	Era	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Derby	2.6 miles	13
Five Points	5.6 miles	14
Orient	6.4 miles	13
Darbyville	7.4 miles	13
Matville	7.6 miles	12
Grange Hall	8.0 miles	14
Crownover Mill	8.5 miles	13
Pherson	8.7 miles	13

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.