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Mutual, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43078. The Survey maps it on the Urbana East quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,194 feet above sea level.

Mutual within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Mutual grew from 104 to 127 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010104
2020127+23 (+22%)

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mutual, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Mutual, surveyed 1914

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,367 shown

Museums hold 1,367 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mutual between 1838 and 1975: 1,028 Animalia, 247 Plantae, 77 Fungi, 11 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross 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 Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.1874Beardslee, H.C.Cedar Swamp
Specimen of Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
A photograph of the species Acer negundo, not of this specimenAcer negundo L.1838Samples, JohnUrbana
A photograph of the species Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris, not of this specimenPylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck1842W. S. SullivantCedar Swamps, 6 mi S of Urbana
A photograph of the species Radula complanata, not of this specimenRadula complanata (L.) Dumort.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantprope Urbana Ohionis
A photograph of the species Radula obconica, not of this specimenRadula obconica Sull.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Urbana
A photograph of the species Cratoneuron filicinum, not of this specimenCratoneuron filicinum (Hedw.) Spruce1875H. J. Biddlecome
A photograph of the species Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus, not of this specimenRhytidiadelphus triquetrus (Hedw.) Warnst.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Sphagnum girgensohnii, not of this specimenSphagnum girgensohnii Russow1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Trichocolea tomentella, not of this specimenTrichocolea tomentella (Ehrh.) Dumort.1875H. J. BiddlecomeUrbana

All 1,367 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 Mutual: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Roberts Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Urbana PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Champaign County

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Mutual in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2014Tornado (EF0)Mutual$15,000The tornado touched down along U.S. Route 36, approximately two tenths of a mile northeast of the intersection with Yocom Road. Damage was primarily confined to the properties of two adjacent residences on the south side of U.S. Route 36. The most substantial damage occurred to a double wide manufactured home that lost half of its roof from the northwest side of the structure. The shingles and rafters were lifted over the home...and deposited immediately to the south. A 20 foot tall apple tree located 60 feet southwest of the home was uprooted and fell to the southeast. Numerous smaller limbs, mostly less than 3 inches in diameter, were broken from a willow tree located approximately 100 feet southeast of the home. These limbs were strewn to the east for approximately 175 feet into a neighboring yard.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMutual$5,500Half of a metal roof from a barn was peeled back. Also an upstairs window was blown out.
May 2011HailMutual-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Catawba Station3.5 miles14
Powhattan3.8 miles14
Mechanicsburg4.3 miles12
Crimville (historical)4.6 miles13
Five Points5.2 miles12
Hagenbaugh (historical)5.8 miles13
Cable6.3 miles13
Urbana6.5 miles15

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 MutualAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2236443The 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 1070863. 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.