Erastus, Ohio

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.

1914 1986

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.

• 1914 USGS Celina quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Celina quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Erastus quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Erastus quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lima quadrangle1:100000

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

Museums hold 266 specimens collected within 10 miles of Erastus between 1840 and 1973: 239 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by . R. Slonakerj, A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K. 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
	Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)	1920	R. Rhoades	St. Marys Lake at Celina
	unnamed	1934	P. P. Pirone	Coldwater
	Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)	1944	H. Price	Wabash River
	Silene virginica L.	1840	J. Wolle, D. Blum
	Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)	1886	Meek and Harris	Montezuma
	Ardea alba egretta Gmelin, 1789	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Calidris canutus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-1994	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Cistothorus palustris dissaeptus Bangs, 1902	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Gallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Celina
	Piranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	J. R. Slonaker	Fort Recovery

All 266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Erastus: 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.

Every working recorded in Mercer County

The National Weather Service names Erastus in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Mercer County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040222. 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.