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

Marshs, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43332. It stands on North Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the La Rue quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Marshs within Hardin 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 Marshs (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Marshs (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1883 county history

35,913 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Dudley Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dudley Township - 35,913 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 49 shown

Museums hold 49 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marshs (historical) between 1882 and 1966: 47 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, Angle, E. (Eric), Clinton; Bird 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis var. phlei-pratensis (Erikss. & Henn.) Stakman & Piem.1908Clinton; BirdMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.)Scioto River tributary, no more precise locality available, ~1.5 miles SW Hepburn OH
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Scioto River tributary, no more precise locality available, ~1.5 miles SW Hepburn OH
A photograph of the species Notropis heterolepis, not of this specimenNotropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 18931928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Scioto River tributary, no more precise locality available, ~1.5 miles SW Hepburn OH
A photograph of the species Sistrurus catenatus, not of this specimenSistrurus catenatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1931ROGER CONANT3 MI E OF MT VICTORY
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821932not recordedMt. Victory, Hardin Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor foxii (Baird & Girard, 1853)1941Rausch, R. (Robert)Mt. Victory, Hardin Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1942A W SHARERE OF MT VICTORY
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Taylor Creek, 3 mi south of Kenton, ~3.2 mi S of Kenton, Buck township
Arhythmorhynchus brevis Van Cleave, 19161944R. RauschMt. Victory

All 49 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
Otterbein3.8 miles11
Mount Victory4.5 miles11
Hepburn4.6 miles10
Pfeiffer5.3 miles10
Browns Crossroads5.3 miles11
Ridgeway7.6 miles11
Grassy Point7.7 miles11
Mentzer7.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060671. 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.

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