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

Evansport, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Tiffin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43519. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evansport quadrangle. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Evansport within Defiance County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Evansport, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Evansport, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 247 shown

Museums hold 247 specimens collected within 10 miles of Evansport between 1860 and 1974: 240 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. B. Kingsbury, Bays, J. (John), C. E. Shoop 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 Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 1854Gomphus spicatus Hagen, 18541945H. PriceKrill's Lake
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Megascops asio, not of this specimenMegascops asio naevius1892J. O. SnyderNey
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionDEFIANCE, OHIO
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschAnglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschTiffin Rver, Brunersburg, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893P. KirschMaumee River, Defiance, Ohio

All 247 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Evansport in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2015Thunderstorm WindEvansport-Local fire officials reported trees and power lines down near Evansport.

Every storm recorded in Defiance 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
Glenburg (historical)3.3 miles11
Domerville (historical)4.8 miles12
Adams Ridge7.2 miles12
Ney7.4 miles13
Brunersburg8.3 miles12
Millers Rolling Hills Estates8.5 miles12
Cooks Rolling Hills8.6 miles12
North Town Estates9.0 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EvansportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5415993The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056280. 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.