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Mallet Creek, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44256. The Survey maps it on the Mallet Creek quadrangle. It stands 3,327 feet above sea level.

Mallet Creek within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mallet Creek, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mallet Creek, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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

550 words on this township

Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on York Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Prior to the coming of the first settlers, they had been notified by letters that the Norwalk Boad was located through the township, and was a good turnpike road ; and that Mallet Creek abounded with speckled trout. Upon their arrival they found it necessary to make their own road, and as for trout they never found any of the speckled tribe but could daily see plenty of speckled frogs in the swampy lands without visiting Mallet Creek. Prior to the clearing- of the level lands there were many swamps and pools ot water.

Passage source: Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861.

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 York Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 326 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 326 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mallet Creek between 1884 and 1975: 301 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] 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 Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
A photograph of the species Ricasolia quercizans, not of this specimenRicasolia quercizans (Michx.) Stizenb.1894Kelsey, F. D.Penfield
A photograph of the species Mougeotia genuflexa, not of this specimenMougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh1896F. D. KelseyPlum Creek
Specimen of Aquilegia canadensis L.Aquilegia canadensis L.1897Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05][label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior WoodsonAsclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O. BereaThe Western Reserve. Brunswick
A photograph of the species Culicoides guttipennis, not of this specimenCulicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)1897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester

All 326 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mallet Creek: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Burbank PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Medina County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mallet Creek in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2011HailMallet Creek-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2011FloodMallet Creek-Torrential rain in severe thunderstorms produced localized flooding over portions of Medina. Numerours roads had water several inches deep with a few isolated road closures. State Rout 42 and 162 were flooded. Doppler Radar estimated as much as 1.75 inches of rain fell within an hour.

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
Lester1.1 miles14
Abbeyville2.9 miles14
Erhart3.4 miles14
Pliny (historical)3.5 miles14
Chamberlain (historical)3.6 miles14
Medina3.8 miles13
Lafayette4.7 miles13
Valley City4.9 miles14

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 Mallet CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6744142The 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 1061463. 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.

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.