Kellker, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Congress Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43338. The Survey maps it on the Shauck quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1915 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1915 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Shauck quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 253 shownMuseums hold 253 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kellker (historical) between 1837 and 1975: 242 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bird, C., Breiding, G. (George), C. G. Lloyd 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr. | 1898 | Lloyd | Ohio |
![]() | Sagittaria latifolia Willd. | 1837 | Frank B | |
![]() | Sicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius | 1837 | Frank B | in civitatate Ohio |
![]() | Usnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg. | 1837 | not recorded | |
![]() | Empidonax traillii (Audubon, 1828) | 1893 | Roberts | unspecified |
![]() | Veronica officinalis L. | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Russell |
![]() | Carex shortiana Dewey & Torr. | 1901 | Kellerman W. A. | |
![]() | Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. | 1919 | W. J. Campbell | Edison |
| Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke | 1920 | C. G. Lloyd | ||
![]() | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) | Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1929 | Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) | Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman | Whetstone Creek, trib of the Oleontangy River, Gilead Twp. |
All 253 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kellker (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williamsport | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| West Point | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hidden Lakes | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Shauck | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| North Woodbury | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Surprise (historical) | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Saint James | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Pulaskiville | 5.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067296. 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.























