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

Holmesville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bowling Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43332. It stands on Brown Run. The Survey maps it on the New Bloomington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Holmesville within Marion County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holmesville (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Holmesville (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 115 shown

Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holmesville (historical) between 1929 and 1964: 113 Animalia, 1 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., C.O. Esselbaugh, J. N. Parsell 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 Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tymochtee Creek, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tymochtee Creek, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Phenacobius mirabilis, not of this specimenPhenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township

All 115 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
La Rue2.7 miles10
Winnemac (historical)2.7 miles10
New Bloomington3.6 miles11
DeCliff4.6 miles11
Gurley (historical)6.3 miles11
Espyville6.7 miles11
Centerville7.0 miles12
Meeker7.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071757. 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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