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Galatea, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45872. The Survey maps it on the North Baltimore quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS North Baltimore quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 294 shownMuseums hold 294 specimens collected within 10 miles of Galatea between 1929 and 1975: 292 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Triplehorn, Creamer, D., Daiber, F. C. (Frank C.) 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Fundulus diaphanus menona Jordan & Copeland, 1877 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township |
 | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Rocky Ford Creek, within Henry township, near Cygnet, Henry township |
 | Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hines, J. | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | South Branch Portage River, near Bloomdale OH, Perry township |
 | Mustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901) | 1930 | E. L. Moseley | Portage Twp |
 | Pimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Middle Branch Portage River, within Liberty township, near Rudolph, Liberty township |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | West Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio |
 | Pseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838) | 1931 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | West Millgrove, Wood Co., Ohio |
All 294 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2011The National Weather Service names Galatea in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galatea | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds tore the roof off of a barn and toppled several trees. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galatea | - | Trees down across intersection of Quarry and Bushey Roads near North Baltimore. Time estimated via radar. |
| November 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galatea | - | Two semis blown over on I-75 two miles ESE of New Baltimore. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Baltimore | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bairdstown | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Oil Center (historical) | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bassett (historical) | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Denver | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bloom Center | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hammansburg | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Cygnet | 4.3 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064697. 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.