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

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.

Glendon within Fayette County

Then and now

1916 to 1986

The 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 sheet of Glendon, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Glendon, surveyed 1916

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.

In the 1914 county history

4,635 words on this township

The 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 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.1882Kellerman, W.A.America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
Specimen of Spiraea tomentosa L.Spiraea tomentosa L.1882Kellerman, W.A.America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
Specimen of Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)Obovaria retusa (Lamarck, 1819)1909Bureau of FisheriesOhio River, Buena Vista
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1901Hartley C. P.Sabina
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lagopus, not of this specimenButeo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Falco rusticolus, not of this specimenFalco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
Tiphiidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Rattlesnake Creek, no more precise locality provided, SW corner of Fayette County OH
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811926Wickliff, 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Jasper Mills1.8 miles12
Jonesboro4.1 miles11
Staunton4.2 miles11
Cunningham4.8 miles12
Luray5.1 miles12
South Plymouth5.3 miles12
Georgetown5.3 miles11
Hagler5.8 miles12

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 GlendonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22034081The 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.