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

Hampstead Green, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Columbus City. It lies in ZIP code area 43054. It stands on Sugar Run. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Hampstead Green within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hampstead Green, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Hampstead Green, surveyed 1902

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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In the 1858 county history

895,918 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Columbus City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,114 shown

Museums hold 2,114 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hampstead Green between 1804 and 1975: 1,914 Animalia, 183 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Penniman, A. P. Morgan 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 Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Ceratodon purpureus, not of this specimenCeratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.1840W. S. SullivantColumbus
Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Anoectangium ciliatum, not of this specimenAnoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.1842Sullivant, W.S.Columbus
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
Astomum muhlenbergianum (Sw.) Grout1842W. S. SullivantColumbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBlack Lick, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 2,114 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
Hampstead Heath0.5 miles12
Pickett Place0.7 miles12
Clivdon0.7 miles12
Albany Park0.7 miles12
Wiveliscombe0.8 miles12
Woods At Sugar Run0.8 miles12
Clivdon Mews0.9 miles12
Ealy Crossing1.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122561320The 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 2771194. 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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