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

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.

Kellker within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 Kellker (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Kellker (historical), surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

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 253 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.1898LloydOhio
A photograph of the species Sagittaria latifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria latifolia Willd.1837Frank B
A photograph of the species Sicyos angulatus, not of this specimenSicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius1837Frank Bin civitatate Ohio
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1837not recorded
A photograph of the species Empidonax traillii, not of this specimenEmpidonax traillii (Audubon, 1828)1893Robertsunspecified
A photograph of the species Veronica officinalis, not of this specimenVeronica officinalis L.1897G. B. AshcroftRussell
A photograph of the species Carex shortiana, not of this specimenCarex shortiana Dewey & Torr.1901Kellerman W. A.
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1919W. J. CampbellEdison
Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. Lloyd
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB TrautmanWhetstone 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 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lexington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrow 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
Williamsport2.4 miles13
West Point2.7 miles13
Hidden Lakes4.5 miles13
Shauck4.6 miles13
North Woodbury4.7 miles13
Surprise (historical)5.1 miles13
Saint James5.5 miles13
Pulaskiville5.7 miles13

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.