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

Lock, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It lies in ZIP code area 43011. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.

Lock within Licking County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lock, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Lock, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2016

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

A block in downtown Newark, Ohio, anchored on the corner by the First National Bank Building
A block in downtown Newark, Ohio, anchored on the corner by the First National Bank Building
Highsmith, Carol M, 2016. Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,016 shown

Museums hold 1,016 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lock between 1881 and 1975: 997 Animalia, 15 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis, Bales, B. R. 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 mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.1896A. P. Morgan; EllisPreston
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1863not recordedUSA, NNO-, OHIO*, GHOTA RIVER ,
A photograph of the species Melanitta nigra, not of this specimenMelanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)1881not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1886not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981888not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus Muhl. ex Willd.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1888E. BarrickFredonia
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221894Mills, W. C.Ohio, USA

All 1,016 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
Appleton4.3 miles11
Croton4.9 miles11
Homer5.1 miles10
Decrow Corners5.4 miles11
Pattons Corners5.7 miles11
Barrick Corners6.4 miles11
Cokesbury Corners7.2 miles11
Highwater8.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065014. 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.

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