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Macedon, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45828. It stands on Toti Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Recovery quadrangle.

Macedon within Mercer County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Macedon, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Macedon, surveyed 1915

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 county-history sources

2,346 words on this township

History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township contains no very large towns but there are four trading places. Macedon is a very old town. It was laid out by William Nichols and George Arbaugh on September 28, 1838, in 60 lots. It had at one time a hotel, two stores, grocery and blacksmith and wagon shop, but at present it has only a few residents and no business is carried on.

Passage source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907.

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 Washington Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 220 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 220 specimens collected within 10 miles of Macedon between 1840 and 1973: 194 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., C. Clark 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 unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
Specimen of Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)1944H. PriceWabash River
A photograph of the species Silene virginica, not of this specimenSilene virginica L.1840J. Wolle, D. Blum
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerFort Recovery
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891892Landis, H. A.Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podosphaera leucotricha, not of this specimenPodosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon1906Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg.
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1909Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 17921911L. L. WaltersFt Recovery, 4 mi SE
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1913Goodrich, CalvinMonterey

All 220 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
Saint Peter2.0 miles12
Monterey2.6 miles14
Padua2.6 miles13
Erastus3.1 miles13
Saint Joseph3.7 miles12
Wabash4.6 miles13
Fort Recovery4.8 miles14
Philothea5.6 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on MacedonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133944The 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 1048941. 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.