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

New Way, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43031. The Survey maps it on the Fredonia quadrangle.

New Way within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Way, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of New Way, surveyed 1908

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,503 shown

Museums hold 2,503 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Way between 1853 and 1975: 2,297 Animalia, 160 Fungi, 26 Protozoa, 17 Plantae, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. M., A. P. Morgan, A. P. Morgan; Ellis 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
Specimen of Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.) Grev.1893H. L. Jones
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking, Ohio, USA
Anas acuta Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,503 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 New Way: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Alexandria Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Alexandria Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rockport Sand & Gravel Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Licking County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names New Way in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Way$3,000Several trees were uprooted and snapped.

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Cokesbury Corners1.9 miles11
Barrick Corners2.8 miles11
Fredonia2.8 miles11
Decrow Corners3.0 miles11
Highwater3.2 miles11
Concord3.5 miles11
Appleton4.4 miles11
Alexandria5.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065140. 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.