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

Horace, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44676. The Survey maps it on the Shreve quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Horace within Wayne County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horace (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Horace (historical), surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 2,335 shown

Museums hold 2,335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horace (historical) between 1877 and 1975: 1,915 Animalia, 236 Plantae, 145 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Corthylio calendula calendula1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 19211890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Dryobates pubescens, not of this specimenDryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Eremophila alpestris, not of this specimenEremophila alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Junco hyemalis hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster

All 2,335 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
Craigton1.3 miles13
Blachleyville2.1 miles11
Springville2.4 miles13
Funk2.4 miles11
Millbrook3.7 miles13
Custaloga (historical)4.4 miles13
Shreve4.7 miles13
Centerville4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1054786. 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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