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

Manara, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43145. It stands on Dews Run. The Survey maps it on the New Holland quadrangle. It stands 2,949 feet above sea level.

Manara within Fayette County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manara, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Manara, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

2,862 words on this township

History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Marion Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The only villages in this township are Manara, a mere hamlet, and a part of New Holland, the greater portion of which is situated in Pickaway county. The Pennsylvania railroad runs through this township from Washington C. H. to the northeast, with New Holland as a station point, on the county line. Manara is situated on the Bloomingburg and New Holland pike.

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Ohio : Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914.

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 Marion Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 186 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 186 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manara between 1907 and 1974: 180 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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 Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1965H. AlthearnDeer Creek, 3.8 Mile NNE Of Pancoastburg
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lagopus, not of this specimenButeo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Falco rusticolus, not of this specimenFalco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
Tiphiidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus (Mitchill, 1814)1930MB TrautmanNorth Fork of Paint Creek, Center of Madison Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930MB TrautmanNorth Fork of Paint Creek, Center of Madison Twp

All 186 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manara in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindManara$5,000A barn was destroyed on Bloomingburg New Holland Road.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Pancoastburg2.9 miles11
Madison Mills3.8 miles10
Johnson3.9 miles11
West Holland4.3 miles11
Kingfred (historical)4.4 miles11
Bloomingburg4.4 miles11
Yankeetown4.7 miles10
Olympia (historical)5.5 miles11

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 ManaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6746949The 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 1062871. 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.