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

Gast Corner, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Prospect Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43342. It stands on Beaver Run. The Survey maps it on the Prospect quadrangle.

Gast Corner within Marion County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gast Corner, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Gast Corner, surveyed 1924

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 222 shown

Museums hold 222 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gast Corner between 1892 and 1970: 217 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., C F WALKER & W D STULL, C.O. Esselbaugh 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 Catocala habilis Grote, 1872Catocala habilis Grote, 18721959not recordedCamp Owens
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1892E E BogueProspect
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Prospect
A photograph of the species Cyprinus carpio, not of this specimenCyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 17581930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Scioto River, within Green Camp township, near Green Camp, Green Camp township
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris triseriata, not of this specimenPseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
Pentatomidae1933C.O. Esselbaugh
A photograph of the species Allocapnia vivipara, not of this specimenAllocapnia vivipara (Claassen, 1924)1937J.N. Parsell
A photograph of the species Catocala cara, not of this specimenCatocala cara Guenée, 18521938John W. PeacockOwens Road B.S. Camp Owens
A photograph of the species Necturus maculosus, not of this specimenNecturus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)1938Thomas, M. W. (Marian W.)Scioto River, Marion Co., Ohio

All 222 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Gast Corner: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fleming PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Green Camp Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Green Camp Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Prospect Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Prospect SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Union Aggregates Prospect PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

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
Prospect1.8 miles12
Newmans2.9 miles12
Centerville3.3 miles12
Bethlehem (historical)5.3 miles12
Green Camp5.7 miles13
Owens5.9 miles13
Quarry Estates6.2 miles13
Country Club Hills6.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062778. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.