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

Forest, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plymouth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44875. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Forest within Richland 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 Forest (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Forest (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1880 county history

83,405 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Plymouth Township covers organization, survey and physical features, the wyandot trail, first settlers and settlements, first marriages and death.s, yearian and the bear.

Read the chapter on Plymouth Township - 83,405 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 44 shown

Museums hold 44 specimens collected within 10 miles of Forest (historical) between 1839 and 1951: 20 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 6 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Chase, H. (Hazel), Eric G. Chapman, J. Wolle 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 Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.ClintonSphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton1897W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Ustilago reiliana J.G.KühnUstilago reiliana J.G.Kühn1897Prof. W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Oakes1839J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Athyrium thelypterioides, not of this specimenAthyrium thelypterioides (Michaux) Desvaux1840J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum Salisb.1869N. L. Brittonnorthern Ohio
A photograph of the species Helophorus lineatus, not of this specimenHelophorus lineatus (Say, 1823)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Hydrobius fuscipes, not of this specimenHydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Agalinis tenuifolia, not of this specimenAgalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Arisaema dracontium, not of this specimenArisaema dracontium (L.) Schott1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Euphorbia vermiculata, not of this specimenEuphorbia vermiculata Raf.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Galium concinnum, not of this specimenGalium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Lactuca serriola, not of this specimenLactuca serriola L.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth

All 44 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
London4.2 miles13
Carefree Estates4.5 miles13
Shiloh4.7 miles14
Shelby5.0 miles13
Planktown5.3 miles14
Hines (historical)5.8 miles13
Vernon Junction7.0 miles13
Ganges7.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067196. 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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