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

Moats, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Delaware Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43549. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherwood quadrangle.

Moats within Defiance County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moats, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Moats, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Delaware township, in the words of 1883.

1883, Delaware Township

Memorial Amd Biographical Record Oe

Tennessee; Sand Mountain, Alabama; Black Warrior Creek, Alabama; Blount's Farm, Alabama; and many skirmishes with bushwhackers. May 3, 1863, he was captured and was sent to Atlanta, where | he was held for a few days and then transferred, to Knoxville, and finally to Richmond, where he was held in captivity at Belle Isle prison for a fortnight.

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Specimens collected nearby

12 of 612 shown

Museums hold 612 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moats between 1858 and 1974: 603 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
Specimen of Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)Boyeria vinosa (Say, 1840)1944H. PriceLost Creek, Bricker Stock Farm on State Route 2
A photograph of the species Trifolium subcaulescens, not of this specimenTrifolium subcaulescens A.Gray1858J. S. NewberryFort Defiance
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1888S. MeekMaumee River, Cecil, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aphredoderus sayanus, not of this specimenAphredoderus sayanus (Gilliams, 1824)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1888S. MeekGordon Creek, Cicero, Ohio

All 612 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
The Bend3.3 miles11
Sherwood3.4 miles11
Ney3.4 miles13
Mark Center6.3 miles11
Ashwood (historical)6.4 miles12
Farmer6.6 miles12
Glenburg (historical)7.3 miles11
Brunersburg7.6 miles12

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 MoatsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133983The 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 1065041. 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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