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

Meredith, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Radnor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43066. The Survey maps it on the Prospect quadrangle.

Meredith within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Meredith, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Meredith, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,269 shown

Museums hold 1,269 specimens collected within 10 miles of Meredith between 1871 and 1975: 1,159 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, Adler, K. K., Allgeyer, S. M. 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 Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Fr.) Lév.Hymenochaete fuliginosa (Fr.) Lév.1898LloydOhio
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887not recordedDelaware, near Olentangy River
Dryobates villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1889not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Falco sparverius, not of this specimenFalco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 17581890not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Muhlenbergia mexicana, not of this specimenMuhlenbergia mexicana (L.) Trin.1890Wilcox, E.V.Deleware
A photograph of the species Chordeiles minor, not of this specimenChordeiles minor minor (J.R.Forster, 1771)1891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981891not recordedDelaware
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1891not recordedDelaware
Spizella passerina passerina (Bechstein, 1798)1891not recordedDelaware

All 1,269 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Meredith: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Penry QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

5 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Meredith in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 flood, 2 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 WindMeredith$200Several large branches were downed.
July 2019FloodMeredith-High water was reported on Troy Road, north of Penry Road.
June 2015FloodMeredith-Thomas Road was closed between Peel and Roberts Roads due to high water.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindMeredith-Gust was measured by an amateur radio operator at the intersection of State Routes 208 and 205.
June 2013HailMeredith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Radnor1.0 miles12
Troyton2.8 miles15
Robertsburg3.1 miles12
Norton4.5 miles15
Lantern Chase4.7 miles13
Oakdale4.8 miles13
Westfield Hills4.8 miles13
Hayes Colony5.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1043231. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.