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

Lake Darby Estates, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43119. The Survey maps it on the Galloway quadrangle.

Lake Darby Estates within Franklin County

Then and now

1923 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Darby Estates, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lake Darby Estates, surveyed 1923

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1858 county history

469 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prairie Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prairie Township - 469 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 667 shown

Museums hold 667 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lake Darby Estates between 1840 and 1975: 571 Animalia, 58 Fungi, 38 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, Adler, K. K., Bogue, E.E. 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 Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1840Collector unspecified"4 miles west of Columbus"
A photograph of the species Ratibida pinnata, not of this specimenRatibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart1854Buker, W.E.where Rt. 3 crosses Big Darby Creek
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1877P.N. WheatonColumbus
A photograph of the species Chiloscyphus ascendens, not of this specimenChiloscyphus ascendens (Wilson & Hook.) Sull.1885W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Frullania eboracensis, not of this specimenFrullania eboracensis Lehm.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Tortella humilis, not of this specimenTortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.1890W. C. WernerGeorgesville
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897United States Bureau of Fisheries, R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOhio, Scioto River, Franklin County
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonHell Branch, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonHell Branch, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461897not recordedHell Branch, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Big Darby Creek, within Franklin Co, Franklin County, township n/a

All 667 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lake Darby Estates: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Dolomite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Madison Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Madison Limestone QuarryDolomite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Olen PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Olen Corporation PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Olen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Lake Darby0.6 miles14
Alton3.4 miles14
Robroy Estates3.5 miles14
Quaker Hill3.7 miles14
The Village At Thornapple3.8 miles14
Thornapple Grove3.8 miles14
Timberbrook3.9 miles14
Mudsock4.0 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122545040The 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 2771810. 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.