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

Kensington Place, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Delaware City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. It stands on Horse Shoe Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Kensington Place within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kensington Place, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Kensington Place, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 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 2,737 shown

Museums hold 2,737 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kensington Place between 1850 and 1975: 2,562 Animalia, 107 Plantae, 63 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror 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 Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.CurtisHypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Ovularia obliqua (Cooke) Oudem.Ovularia obliqua (Cooke) Oudem.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA

All 2,737 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Pluggys Town (historical)1.7 miles13
Delaware1.8 miles13
Paget1.8 miles13
Riverby Estates2.1 miles13
The Ravine2.2 miles13
Jones2.2 miles13
Shelbourne Forest2.7 miles13
Hayes Colony2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771853. 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.