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

Maplewood, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45340. The Survey maps it on the Jackson Center quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Maplewood within Shelby County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Maplewood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Maplewood, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

18,336 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Salem 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 Salem Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 182 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maplewood between 1897 and 1967: 150 Animalia, 19 Fungi, 12 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Sorghum MoenchSorghum Moench1897Kellerman, W.A.Shelby Co., Ohio.
Specimen of Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1939not recordedMiami River
unnamed1897WA KellermanShelby County
Sorosporium reilianum (J.G.Kühn) McAlpine1897W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Sphacelotheca reiliana, not of this specimenSphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton1897Kellerman W. A.Shelby Co.
A photograph of the species Ustilago reiliana, not of this specimenUstilago reiliana J.G.Kühn1897Kellerman, W.A.Shelby County, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1904Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)New Bremen, Shelby, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirneola auricula-judae, not of this specimenHirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1909Fisher G. ClydeSidney
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1914Russell A. B.Sidney
Phyllosticta vincae-minoris Bres. & Krieg.1914The Wagner Park Nursery Co.Sidney
A photograph of the species Blarina brevicauda, not of this specimenBlarina brevicauda talpoides (Gapper, 1830)1915HenningerShelby Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana Kerr, 17921915not recordedShelby Co., Ohio, USA

All 182 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplewood in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindMaplewood$20,000A house on Maplewood Road had a garage door blown in and roof damage. An outbuilding was also damaged.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMaplewood$6,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Two flag poles were also bent in half.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindMaplewood$250A small tree was downed.
July 2014HailMaplewood-no account filed
October 2013Thunderstorm WindMaplewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Jackson Center4.4 miles15
Port Jefferson4.9 miles15
Montra5.3 miles15
Pemberton5.6 miles15
Pasco7.5 miles15
Swanders7.9 miles15
Anna7.9 miles15
Sidney9.4 miles15

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 MaplewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6754095The 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 1061469. 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.