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

McKays, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the New Burlington quadrangle.

McKays within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McKays, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of McKays, surveyed 1917

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 1915 county history

6,314 words on this township

The county history of 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 6,314 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 275 shown

Museums hold 275 specimens collected within 10 miles of McKays between 1911 and 1974: 263 Animalia, 8 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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 Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1911not recordedClinton, North America
A photograph of the species Claviceps purpurea, not of this specimenClaviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.1919Lewis H. L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Corydalus cornutus, not of this specimenCorydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1920E. C. StinsonHarveysburg
A photograph of the species Cladonia fimbriata, not of this specimenCladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.J.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Parmelia Acharius, not of this specimenParmelia Acharius, 18031924Taylor, L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1924Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
A photograph of the species Mustela frenata, not of this specimenMustela frenata Lichtenstein, 18311927Hazard, F. O.Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma jeffersonianum, not of this specimenAmbystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)1929Hazard, F. O.Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 275 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
Mount Pleasant1.6 miles12
Gurneyville1.7 miles15
Lumberton1.9 miles12
Ogles (historical)2.4 miles12
Little Center4.0 miles14
North Kingman4.0 miles15
Kingman4.3 miles15
Oakland4.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061246. 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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