Glendon, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43160. It stands on West Branch Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milledgeville quadrangle. It stands 3,369 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1916 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 70 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
12 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.
- 1916 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Octa quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the 1914 county history
4,635 words on this townshipThe county history of 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Jasper Township covers early settlers, schools, churches, towns, post offices, etc., 708.
Read the chapter on Jasper Township - 4,635 words.
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 171 shownMuseums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glendon between 1882 and 1975: 157 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév. | 1882 | Kellerman, W.A. | America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae. |
![]() | Spiraea tomentosa L. | 1882 | Kellerman, W.A. | America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae. |
![]() | Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819) | 1909 | Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio River, Buena Vista |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1901 | Hartley C. P. | Sabina |
![]() | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1907 | Hegler, A. (Almer) | Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1907 | Hegler, A. (Almer) | Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788) | 1907 | Hegler, A. (Almer) | Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Falco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1907 | Hegler, A. (Almer) | Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA |
| Tiphiidae | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA | |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Opsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 1881 | 1926 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Sugar Creek, near NE corner of Clinton County OH locality is approximate based off Fishes of Ohio distribution map |
All 171 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper Mills | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Jonesboro | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Staunton | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cunningham | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Luray | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| South Plymouth | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Georgetown | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Hagler | 5.8 miles | 12 |
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 Glendon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22034081 | The 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 1064730. 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.






















