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

Hamer, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mill Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43570. It stands on West Fork Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alvordton quadrangle.

Hamer within Williams County

Then and now

1913 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hamer, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Hamer, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1905 county history

971 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mill Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mill Creek Township - 971 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 116 shown

Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hamer between 1890 and 1974: 115 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., CLARENCE CLARK, Cameron 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 Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854Gomphus exilis Selys, 18541946H. PriceNorthwest Township, Nettle Creek
A photograph of the species Plowrightia morbosa, not of this specimenPlowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.1890Woodard EdwinStryker
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1893P. KirschTiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Sturnus vulgaris, not of this specimenSturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 17581927Price, H. (Homer)Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mill Creek, within Ex east Mill Creek township, near Alvordton, Mill Creek township
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
A photograph of the species Mustela nivalis, not of this specimenMustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)1929R. BernathStryker
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township
A photograph of the species Notropis spilopterus, not of this specimenNotropis spilopterus (Cope, 1867)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)West Branch Saint Joseph River, Ex east Bridgewater township, ~2 mi SW of Pioneer, Bridgewater township

All 116 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
Alvordton2.8 miles14
Franklin Junction3.0 miles14
West Unity3.1 miles14
Primrose3.8 miles14
Kunkle4.3 miles14
Jefferson Estates5.3 miles14
Baldwin (historical)5.3 miles14
Lock Port5.6 miles14

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 HamerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657827The 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 1064782. 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.