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

Jones City, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45830. The Survey maps it on the Kalida quadrangle.

Jones City within Putnam County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Jones City, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Jones City, surveyed 1906

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 76 shown

Museums hold 76 specimens collected within 10 miles of Jones City between 1893 and 1969: 76 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Blyth & Katz, C. Nichols, , Beut. Coll. 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 Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschSugar Creek, Cloverdale
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedCloverdale, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedCloverdale, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB TrautmanCranberry Creek, in S Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Cr. Twp: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Sugar Creek Twp.: near Vaughnsville, Putnam Co., Ohio

All 76 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jones City: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Rimer QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rimer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Putnam 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
Rimer1.6 miles13
Vaughnsville1.6 miles13
Seitz2.6 miles13
Rushmore3.8 miles14
Clevengers (historical)5.3 miles13
Fort Jennings6.3 miles13
Kalida7.1 miles13
Columbus Grove7.1 miles13

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 Jones CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21994099The 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 1048876. 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.