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

Fauser, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chatfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44820. The Survey maps it on the Chatfield quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fauser within Crawford County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 Fauser (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Fauser (historical), surveyed 1915

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 1912 county history

8,582 words on this township

The county history of 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chatfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chatfield Township - 8,582 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 179 shown

Museums hold 179 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fauser (historical) between 1842 and 1973: 163 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Beal, L. E., Benjamin, J. R., Chase, H. (Hazel) 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
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1842	William S. Sullivant
Lestes unguiculatus Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township, ditch
Tramea lacerata Hagen, 1861	1942	H. Price	Benton Township
Cirriphyllum piliferum (Hedw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Drepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.	1842	W. S. Sullivant
Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1844	not recorded
Gymnoconia interstitialis (Schltdl.) Lagerh.	1906	Hieber Christina	Bucyrus
Puccinia chrysanthemi Roze	1922	Orewiler Henry	Tiro
Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)	1929	MB Trautman	Sandusky River, NE corner of Bucyrus Twp
Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)	1930	E. Wichliff	Bucyrus Fish Hatchery
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1931	Conant, R. (Roger)	W. of Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio
Antennaria parlinii subsp. fallax (Greene) R.J.Bayer & Stebbins	1932	Leslie L Pontius; Floyd Bartley	Benton

All 179 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Ridgeton	1.5 miles	11
Chatfield	2.0 miles	11
Brandywine	3.8 miles	13
Broken Sword	4.2 miles	10
Sulphur Springs	4.8 miles	13
Lykens	5.1 miles	10
New Washington	5.4 miles	11
Spore	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063646. 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.

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