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Monterey, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Recovery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45846. The Survey maps it on the Fort Recovery quadrangle.

Monterey within Mercer County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Monterey, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Monterey, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 county-history sources

838 words on this township

History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907 names this settlement in its chapter on Recovery Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The old town of Monterey, which was laid out in 1849 by Isaac Raus, had at one time a general store owned and operated by Henry Wurdeman and at a later date conducted by Mother Goerke; now it is only a place of a few residences, without any business.

Passage source: History of Mercer County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, published 1907.

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 Recovery Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 151 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monterey between 1888 and 1962: 126 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, C. Clark, C. Clark & R. Rhoades 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 unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
Specimen of Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)1944H. PriceWabash River
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerFort Recovery
A photograph of the species Podosphaera leucotricha, not of this specimenPodosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon1906Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg.
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 17921911L. L. WaltersFt Recovery, 4 mi SE
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1913Goodrich, CalvinMonterey
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1913Goodrich, CalvinFort Recovery(3 mi E)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1913Goodrich, CalvinSt Henry
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1926not recordedFort Laramie

All 151 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
Saint Peter2.0 miles12
Macedon2.6 miles14
Fort Recovery2.6 miles14
Saint Joseph2.9 miles12
Padua4.0 miles13
Erastus5.7 miles13
Wendelin6.1 miles12
Wabash6.8 miles13

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 MontereyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133990The 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 1043449. 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.