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Ghormley, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45123. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Martinsburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1917 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1917 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Martinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,380 words on this townshipHistory of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Convenience is the name of another hamlet. It is a station on the railroad and was once embraced in the farm of W. R. Hukill. This, too, is a platted village. There are also flag stations on the railroad line of the Ohio Southern system, known as Bogus Road and Ghormley. None of these are places of much commercial importance today.
Passage source: History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 116 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ghormley (historical) between 1909 and 1975: 114 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bureau of Fisheries, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Chandler, D. S. (Donald S.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Buena Vista |
 | Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Rattlesnake Creek, no more precise locality provided, SW corner of Fayette County OH |
 | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a |
 | Plethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 1938 | 1929 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | Perry Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio |
 | Hypagyrtis unipunctata (Haworth, 1809) | 1931 | G.W. Rawson | Good Hope |
 | Euura Newman, 1837 | 1936 | H.H. Ross | |
 | Ameiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1938 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | North Fork Buckskin Creek, within Ross Co, Ross County, township n/a |
 | Orconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | East Branch of Buckskin Creek, 5 mi. NE of Greenfield, Buckskin Township |
 | Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1939 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Sheperds Run, within Wayne township, near Washington Court House, Wayne township |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1939 | Rhoades, R. (Randall) | Sheperds Run, within Wayne township, near Washington Court House, Wayne township |
 | Etheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854) | 1939 | Trautman, M. B. | |
 | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1939 | R. Rhoades | Lees Creek, 3 Mile North Of Leesburg, Green Township |
All 116 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ghormley (historical): 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Greenfield Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Hope | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Rock Mills | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| New Martinsburg | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Boyds | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| McLean | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Buena Vista | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fairview | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Staunton | 7.2 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068740. 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.