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

Landis, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45331. The Survey maps it on the Greenville East quadrangle.

Landis within Darke County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Landis, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Landis, surveyed 1953

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 county-history sources

9,314 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Franklin Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 334 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 334 specimens collected within 10 miles of Landis between 1838 and 1975: 312 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Albrecht, C. 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 Callitriche palustris, not of this specimenCallitriche palustris L.1838Short, C.W.Lexington, Kentucky.
A photograph of the species Peronospora destructor, not of this specimenPeronospora destructor (Berk.) Casp. ex Berk.1883Collector unspecifiedIthaca
A photograph of the species Dispira americana, not of this specimenDispira americana Thaxt.1895Rush W. H.Greenville
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451905Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma microperca, not of this specimenEtheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 18881905Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
A photograph of the species Clitocybe multiceps, not of this specimenClitocybe multiceps Peck1906H.J. BrememanGreenville
A photograph of the species Peziza vesiculosa, not of this specimenPeziza vesiculosa Bull.1907Lucas, CGreenville
A photograph of the species Amanita phalloides, not of this specimenAmanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr.1909A. F. C.; Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe odora, not of this specimenClitocybe odora (Bull.) P.Kumm.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Panaeolus solidipes, not of this specimenPanaeolus solidipes (Peck) Sacc.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Fomes lobatus, not of this specimenFomes lobatus Cooke1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Macrolepiota procera, not of this specimenMacrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer1911OverholtsGettysburg

All 334 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landis in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016Tornado (EF0)Landis$10,500The tornado touched down in a field just northwest of the|intersection of Neff Road and Hahn Road, continuing northeast across|the 5200 block of Gettysburg-Pitsburg Road, where it left a home|untouched but knocked down a rotted tree just behind it. A barn|behind the home sustained significant damage, losing a quarter of|its roof and the entire overhang attached to the back of the barn.|The sliding front door of the barn was also flipped up over the|roof. A small tractor trailer parked behind the barn was flipped|onto its side and was damaged by flying debris. Debris from the barn|was found strewn about 200 yards east into a soybean field behind|the farm. A few large branches were found snapped off a tree behind|the barn.||Drone footage shared by the Darke County Sheriff showed a continuous|tornado path through soybean and corn fields stretching a few|miles northeast of the initial touchdown location. As the tornado|tracked northeast from the damaged farm, it passed just about 300|feet north of a residence on Yount Road. Downstream crop damage|revealed the tornado crossed Byreley Road, Red River-West Grove|Road, and Grise Road. A small metal phone booth with a concrete slab|foundation was knocked over on Grise Road just west of State Route|721. The tornado path ended in a soybean field just east of the|Darke/Miami county line after crossing State Route 721.

Every storm recorded in Darke 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
Union Corners1.9 miles13
Painter Creek2.2 miles13
Nineveh2.3 miles12
Fourmans Corners2.5 miles12
Poplar Ridge2.7 miles12
Steel Point3.3 miles12
Red River3.4 miles13
Miller Grove3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048905. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.