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Maysville, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45850. It stands on King Run. The Survey maps it on the Harrod quadrangle.
Then and now
1913 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
16 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1913 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Alger quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Alger quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Harrod quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Harrod quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Marion quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
97,694 words on this townshipThe 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 8 more 8 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 116 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maysville between 1893 and 1961: 115 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Clark, Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.), Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Medicago sativa L. | 1961 | Robert H. Gray | 1 mile west of Lafayette. |
 | Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1893 | P. Kirsch | Lost Creek, Lima, Ohio |
 | Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802) | 1929 | Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | 1 1/2 mi S of Harrod, Allen Co., Ohio |
 | Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) | 1929 | Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | 1 1/2 mi S of Harrod, Allen Co., Ohio |
 | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, at Westminster, ~4.1 mi W of Harrod, Auglaize township |
 | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, at Westminster, ~4.1 mi W of Harrod, Auglaize township |
 | Lepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Auglaize River, at Westminster, near Harrod, Auglaize township |
 | Acris crepitans Baird, 1854 | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | NE Perry Twp., Allen Co., Ohio |
 | Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Ottawa River, within central Jackson township, near Lafayette, Jackson township |
| Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) | 1930 | Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) | NE Perry Twp., Allen Co., Ohio | |
 | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Ottawa River, within central Jackson township, near Lafayette, Jackson township |
| Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert) | Ottawa River, within central Jackson township, near Lafayette, Jackson township |
All 116 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrod | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lafayette | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| West Newton | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Westminster | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Eastwood Estates | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Beaver Dam Station | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Beaverdam | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| South Warsaw | 9.6 miles | 15 |
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 Maysville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133951 | The 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 1061489. 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.