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

Millersville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43435. The Survey maps it on the Helena quadrangle.

Millersville within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millersville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Millersville, surveyed 1901

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 354 shown

Museums hold 354 specimens collected within 10 miles of Millersville between 1880 and 1975: 331 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R., Albertin 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1880Keeler, L.E.Fremont.
Specimen of Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896DayFremont
Specimen of Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleySandusky River, Fremont, North America
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Larus argentatus, not of this specimenLarus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 18621881not recordedSandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Calidris alba, not of this specimenCalidris alba (Pallas, 1764)1891Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Sandusky, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Neotibicen canicularis, not of this specimenNeotibicen canicularis (Harris, 1841)1891not recordedFremont
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Morone chrysops, not of this specimenMorone chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)1893not recordedSandusky River, Fremont

All 354 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Millersville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, 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
J E Baker Co Ohio QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Je Baker/ Millersville, OhioCalciumProducer
Ohio QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite

Every working recorded in Sandusky County

Storms nearby

1 since 2006

The National Weather Service names Millersville in 1 storm report between 2006 and 2006: 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
April 2006HailMillersville-Nickel size hail was reported near Millersville.

Every storm recorded in Sandusky 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
Tinney1.6 miles12
Helena2.1 miles12
Winters Station3.4 miles13
Burgoon3.4 miles12
Girton4.6 miles12
Gabels Corner4.6 miles13
Havens4.7 miles13
Squires5.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048977. 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.