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

Frenchtown, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Spring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43316. The Survey maps it on the New Riegel quadrangle.

Frenchtown within Seneca County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Frenchtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Frenchtown, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 22 shown

Museums hold 22 specimens collected within 10 miles of Frenchtown between 1893 and 1966: 17 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cunningham J. L., Cunningham, J. L., Goodpaster, W. 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
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893United States Fish CommissionTiffin, Sandusky River
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods on Fostoria-Carey Rd., near Carey, Big Spring Twp., Seneca Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods on Fostoria-Carey Rd., near Carey, Big Spring Twp., Seneca Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris crucifer, not of this specimenPseudacris crucifer (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods on Fostoria-Carey Rd., near Carey, Big Spring Twp., Seneca Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Woods on Fostoria-Carey Rd., near Carey, Big Spring Twp., Seneca Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Sylvilagus floridanus, not of this specimenSylvilagus floridanus (J.A.Allen, 1890)1939Goodpaster, W.Fostoria
Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary1958Cunningham, J. L.Alvada
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1961Cunningham J. L.Alvada
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1961Cunningham J. L.Alvada
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1961Cunningham J. L.Alvada

All 22 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
Saint Nicholas (historical)1.0 miles12
New Riegel2.0 miles12
Adrian2.2 miles12
Berwick2.4 miles12
Springville2.6 miles11
Alvada3.4 miles11
Hopewell Estates7.2 miles11
Brookpark Estates7.3 miles11

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 FrenchtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133759The 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 1064686. 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.