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

Farmers, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45146. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle.

Farmers within Clinton 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 Farmers, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Farmers, 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.

In the county-history sources

7,004 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Clark Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Clark Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 481 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 481 specimens collected within 10 miles of Farmers between 1892 and 1974: 271 Animalia, 176 Fungi, 21 Plantae, 12 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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 Entyloma compositarum Farl.Entyloma compositarum Farl.1894F. L. StevensHighland Falls.
Specimen of Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 1899Hemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991922Cooke, William BridgeSeven Caves (Highlands Nature Sanctuary)
Specimen of Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Desmodium pauciflorum, not of this specimenDesmodium pauciflorum (Nutt.) DC.1892J. S. VanderwortNew Antioch
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1911not recordedClinton, North America
A photograph of the species Claviceps purpurea, not of this specimenClaviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.1919Lewis H. L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Cladonia coniocraea, not of this specimenCladonia coniocraea (Flörke) Spreng.1923Braun, E. LucyKlock's Crossing
A photograph of the species Cladonia fimbriata, not of this specimenCladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.J.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Parmelia Acharius, not of this specimenParmelia Acharius, 18031924Taylor, L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1924Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Mustela frenata, not of this specimenMustela frenata Lichtenstein, 18311927Hazard, F. O.Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 481 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmers in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 flood, 2 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFarmers$5,000Numerous 6 to 12 inches trees along with branches were knocked down on State Route 350.
March 2008FloodFarmers$3,000State Route 729 and Antioch Road were flooded.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmers$1,000A large tree was uprooted.
December 2013FloodFarmers-Highway 134 at the Clinton and Highland County line was impassible northbound and nearly impassible southbound due to high water caused by heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Wallopsburg2.3 miles11
Martinsville2.7 miles11
Snow Hill3.0 miles11
Morrisville3.1 miles11
Jonesboro3.5 miles11
New Vienna3.8 miles11
Klocks Crossing6.0 miles11
Cuba6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064640. 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.