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

Holden, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45896. The Survey maps it on the Waynesfield quadrangle.

Holden within Auglaize County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holden, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Holden, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 1880 county history

12,567 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wayne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wayne Township - 12,567 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 305 shown

Museums hold 305 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holden between 1896 and 1973: 269 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Clark, Clark, C. (Clarence), Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.) 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 Bovista pila, not of this specimenBovista pila Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896Lloyd C. G.Mt. Lookout
A photograph of the species Poria tulipiferae, not of this specimenPoria tulipiferae (Schwein.) Cooke1896Lloyd C. G.Mt. Lookout
A photograph of the species Irpex Fr., not of this specimenIrpex Fr.1897Lloyd C. G.Mt. Lookout
A photograph of the species Polyporus adustus, not of this specimenPolyporus adustus (Willd.) Fr.1897Lloyd C. G.Mt. Lookout
A photograph of the species Pedicularis lanceolata, not of this specimenPedicularis lanceolata Michx.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardChippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Indian Lake, Hatchery Pond, 0.5 mi N of Lakeview, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1929Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)1 1/2 mi S of Harrod, Allen Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1929Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)1 1/2 mi S of Harrod, Allen Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Muchinippi Creek, within Stokes township, near Lakeview, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis biguttatus, not of this specimenHybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Muchinippi Creek, within Stokes township, near Lakeview, Stokes township
Percina maculata (Girard, 1859)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Little Muchinippi Creek, within Stokes township, near Lakeview, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1942Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)Wrestle Creek, Sec 11 of Union township, ~4.3 mi NW of Waynesfield, Union township

All 305 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
New Hampshire5.0 miles17
Waynesfield5.0 miles17
Rineharts (historical)8.1 miles14
Gutman10.4 miles14
Uniopolis10.9 miles14
Saint Johns11.2 miles14
Slater11.5 miles14
Geyer11.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064847. 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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