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

Jefferson, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44691. It stands on Rathburn Run. The Survey maps it on the New Pittsburg quadrangle.

Jefferson within Wayne County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jefferson, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Jefferson, surveyed 1906

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 2,567 shown

Museums hold 2,567 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jefferson between 1877 and 1975: 2,130 Animalia, 248 Plantae, 150 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
Specimen of Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)1930B. Montgomery & J. Houser2 miles northeast of Wooster
A photograph of the species Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
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

All 2,567 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Jefferson in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Several large trees uprooted or snapped at Wooster Memorial Park just WNW of Wooster.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Numerous trees downed along US-30, just east of US-250, just WSW of Wooster.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJefferson-Large pine tree downed at Jefferson and Wile Roads about five-miles WSW of Wooster.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

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
Branstetter (historical)2.3 miles17
Burnetts Corners3.4 miles17
Linwood Heights3.5 miles17
Parkview3.5 miles17
Westwood3.6 miles17
Devil Town4.0 miles17
Blachleyville4.1 miles11
The Meadows4.2 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on JeffersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133855The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056357. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.