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

Greenwood Colony, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Paris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43040. The Survey maps it on the Marysville quadrangle.

Greenwood Colony within Union County

Then and now

1916 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenwood Colony, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Greenwood Colony, 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 565 shown

Museums hold 565 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greenwood Colony between 1880 and 1975: 546 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande 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
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581880not recordedMarysville, Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Haliaeetus leucocephalus, not of this specimenHaliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881not recordedPleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1894Mrs. Smyth
A photograph of the species Leucobryum glaucum, not of this specimenLeucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Tetraphis pellucida, not of this specimenTetraphis pellucida Hedw.1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Thelia asprella, not of this specimenThelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.1894Mrs. Smyth
Uredo1897W. A. Kellerman
Uromyces plumbarius Peck1897W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Empoasca fabae, not of this specimenEmpoasca fabae (Harris, 1841)1918H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Hydnum erinaceus, not of this specimenHydnum erinaceus Bull.1918Weir J. R.Marysville
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1924Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Union, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ichneumon annulatorius, not of this specimenIchneumon annulatorius Fabricius, 17751926not recorded

All 565 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
Adena Pointe0.5 miles12
Marysville1.1 miles12
Milford Estates1.3 miles12
Green Pastures1.4 miles12
Marysville Estates1.5 miles12
Millcreek Meadows1.6 miles12
Hickory Run1.7 miles12
Carriage Acres1.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771077. 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.

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