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

Flockton, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45011. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle.

Flockton within Butler County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Flockton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Flockton, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1905 county history

17,301 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fairfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fairfield Township - 17,301 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 455 shown

Museums hold 455 specimens collected within 10 miles of Flockton between 1835 and 1975: 396 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 2 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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 LeptostromataceaeLeptostromataceae1883Prof. W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. KellermanLancaster.
A photograph of the species Carex careyana, not of this specimenCarex careyana Torr. ex Dewey1835Collector unknownIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
Carex convoluta Mack.1835Collector unspecified"Miami"
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1835B. FrankIn ditione "Miami" civitatis Ohio.
A photograph of the species Calidris melanotos, not of this specimenCalidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)1879W. DouglassJones Station
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 17581879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus arnyi Kennicott, 18591879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Lampropeltis triangulum, not of this specimenLampropeltis triangulum (Lacépède, 1789)1879not recordedHughes
A photograph of the species Mimus polyglottos, not of this specimenMimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter collection, J.B.LOCNM: Jones
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1879not recordedHughes

All 455 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ascot Downs1.3 miles15
Athlone (historical)1.6 miles16
Jones (historical)1.7 miles16
Port Union2.0 miles15
Indian Springs2.0 miles16
Stockton2.2 miles16
Millikin (historical)2.4 miles15
Greystone2.5 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122593826The 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 1065568. 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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