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

Heglers, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43160. It stands on Herrod Creek. The Survey maps it on the Good Hope quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Heglers within Ross County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Heglers (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Heglers (historical), surveyed 1917

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 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of Heglers (historical) between 1898 and 1975: 128 Animalia, 5 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, Alexander, R.D., Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.) 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 Heterosternuta wickhami, not of this specimenHeterosternuta wickhami (Zaitzev, 1908)1898Scott O'Dee
Fungus Adanson ex O.Kuntze, 18981908E. T. Harper & S. A. Harper
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Riker A. J.South Salem
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Deer Creek, within Ross Co, Ross County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Hypagyrtis unipunctata, not of this specimenHypagyrtis unipunctata (Haworth, 1809)1931G.W. RawsonGood Hope
A photograph of the species Eupatorium maculatum, not of this specimenEupatorium maculatum var. maculatum1935D. Demarée
A photograph of the species Lythrum alatum, not of this specimenLythrum alatum Pursh1935D. DemareeFrankfort
A photograph of the species Oxypolis rigidior, not of this specimenOxypolis rigidior (L.) Raf.1935D. Demarée
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1938Rhoades, R. (Randall)North Fork Buckskin Creek, within Ross Co, Ross County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Orconectes propinquus, not of this specimenOrconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1938R. RhoadesEast Branch of Buckskin Creek, 5 mi. NE of Greenfield, Buckskin Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1939Pelton, J. Z. (John Z.)Buckskin Creek, 0.25 mi north of South Salem, ~0.4 mi N of South Salem, Buckskin township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1939Pelton, J. Z. (John Z.)Buckskin Creek, 0.25 mi north of South Salem, ~0.4 mi N of South Salem, Buckskin township

All 137 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
Austin2.1 miles13
Frankfort5.4 miles13
Thornton (historical)5.9 miles12
Roxabell6.0 miles13
Clarksburg6.2 miles13
Harper6.4 miles13
Greenland7.0 miles14
Lattaville7.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065493. 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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