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

Needmore, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45380. It stands on Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dawn quadrangle.

Needmore within Darke County

Then and now

1953 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Needmore, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Needmore, surveyed 1953

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.

In the 1880 county history

17,405 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wayne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wayne Township - 17,405 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 280 shown

Museums hold 280 specimens collected within 10 miles of Needmore between 1895 and 1975: 254 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. C.; Stover, W. G., Albrecht, C., Albrecht, C., Valentine, B. (Barry) & Valentine, B. (Buena) 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 Tilletia laevis J.G.KühnTilletia laevis J.G.Kühn1919not recordedVersailles
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1919s.n.Versailles
Specimen of Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1919H.L. LewisVersailles
A photograph of the species Dispira americana, not of this specimenDispira americana Thaxt.1895Rush W. H.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe multiceps, not of this specimenClitocybe multiceps Peck1906H.J. BrememanGreenville
A photograph of the species Peziza vesiculosa, not of this specimenPeziza vesiculosa Bull.1907Lucas, CGreenville
A photograph of the species Amanita phalloides, not of this specimenAmanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr.1909A. F. C.; Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Clitocybe odora, not of this specimenClitocybe odora (Bull.) P.Kumm.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Panaeolus solidipes, not of this specimenPanaeolus solidipes (Peck) Sacc.1909Stover, W. G.Greenville
A photograph of the species Fomes lobatus, not of this specimenFomes lobatus Cooke1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Macrolepiota procera, not of this specimenMacrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer1911OverholtsGettysburg
A photograph of the species Polyporus zonalis, not of this specimenPolyporus zonalis Berk.1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg

All 280 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
Webster1.5 miles13
Versailles2.1 miles13
North Jacksonville2.3 miles13
Horatio3.4 miles12
Frenchtown3.7 miles12
Stelvideo4.0 miles12
Dawn4.3 miles12
Beamsville4.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049004. 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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