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

Jerome, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jerome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43064. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Hills quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Jerome within Union County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jerome, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Jerome, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jerome township, in the words of 1915.

1915, Jerome Township

William H. Goff

A veteran of the Civil War, a large land owner, a successful mill operator, William H. Goff is one of the honored citizens of Union county, Ohio. He enlisted in the Civil War at the age of nineteen, was severely wounded several times, and was on crutches for nearly three years after the war closed. He has taken a prominent part in the life of his community since the Civil War and is one of the largest land owners and most successful farmers of the county.

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Specimens collected nearby

12 of 178 shown

Museums hold 178 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jerome between 1918 and 1975: 177 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande 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 Empoasca fabae, not of this specimenEmpoasca fabae (Harris, 1841)1918H.T. Osborn
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sugar Run, within Jerome township, near Plain City, Jerome township
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1943Rausch, R. (Robert)Near St. John's Church, 5 mi. S. of Marysville, Union Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1944Rausch, R. (Robert)1 mi South from St. John's church, Darby Twp., Union Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Dothistroma pini, not of this specimenDothistroma pini Hulbary1955Jewell FredArnold
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1958Ford, T. (Thomas)Big Darby Creek, ust US 42, 1.9 miles NW of Plain City OH, Darby Township

All 178 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jerome: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Union QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms nearby

4 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Jerome in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
May 2019Thunderstorm WindJerome$5,000Multiple utility poles were downed, causing a road closure at the intersection of Jerome Road and Blaney Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJerome$500A tree limb was knocked down along Mitchell Dewitt Road near the county line.
July 2022FloodJerome-High water was reported on properties along North Fork Indian Run.
August 2011Heavy RainJerome-High water due to heavy rain was reported on Highway 42.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
New California3.3 miles15
Arnold4.3 miles12
Watkins4.9 miles15
Darby Meadows7.5 miles12
Dipple7.9 miles12
Mill Creek Estates8.2 miles12
Buxton Meadows8.4 miles12
Pleasant Ridge8.5 miles12

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 JeromeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716532The 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 1064909. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.