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

Horton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bokescreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43358. The Survey maps it on the West Mansfield quadrangle.

Horton within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Horton, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Horton, surveyed 1913

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 237 shown

Museums hold 237 specimens collected within 10 miles of Horton between 1862 and 1975: 202 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 1 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A.J. Sharp, Cavender, T. (Ted) 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
Specimen of Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Rhytisma Fr., not of this specimenRhytisma Fr.1901W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Cercospora maianthemi, not of this specimenCercospora maianthemi Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1902W. A. KellermanWest Mansfield
Scolicotrichum graminis Fuckel1902Kellerman, William AshbrookWest Mansfield
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.1908Clinton; BirdMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bokes Creek, ~2.8 miles N of West Mansfield OH, southwest Washington township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bokes Creek, within east Rushcreek township, near Rushsylvania OH, Rushcreek township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bokes Creek, ~2.8 miles N of West Mansfield OH, southwest Washington township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus natalis, not of this specimenIctalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bokes Creek, within Rushcreek township, near Rushsylvania, Rushcreek township

All 237 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
West Mansfield3.6 miles13
Walnut Grove4.0 miles13
Van4.7 miles11
Big Springs5.4 miles11
North Greenfield5.5 miles13
Rushsylvania6.1 miles13
Marl City7.1 miles13
New Jerusalem7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064866. 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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