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

Marathon, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It stands on Grassy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Newtonsville quadrangle.

Marathon within Clermont County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marathon, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Marathon, surveyed 1914

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

172 words on this township

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

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 298 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 298 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marathon between 1886 and 1975: 155 Animalia, 125 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A JOHN AND R KNOTTS, A JOHN AND T RITTER 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
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Leptogium corticola, not of this specimenLeptogium corticola (Taylor) Tuck.1920Braun, E. LucyNewtown (Newtonsville)
Hypnales1928Fulford, Margaret Hannahroad from Williamsburg to Bethel
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella whipplei, not of this specimenCyprinella whipplei Girard, 18561930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Lythrurus ardens, not of this specimenLythrurus ardens (Cope, 1868)1930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021930MB TrautmanStonelick Creek, Stonelick Twp.

All 298 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marathon in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMarathon$15,000A house porch collapsed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMarathon$10,000A house porch partially collapsed.
June 2008HailMarathon$3,000no account filed
July 2013Flash FloodMarathon$1,000Closures were reported on Smokey Road due to water rushing over the road caused by heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Clermont 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
Lerado2.1 miles15
Moores Fork3.7 miles15
Blowville3.8 miles18
Monterey4.0 miles15
Pringle Corners4.8 miles15
Woodland Park4.9 miles15
Newtonsville5.0 miles15
Edenton6.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061470. 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.