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North Kingman, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45177. The Survey maps it on the New Burlington quadrangle.

North Kingman within Clinton County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Kingman, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of North Kingman, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

13,296 words on this township

The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Chester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In those days, the Eall and winter rains (when the country was new, and in its primeval form) did not run off all the ground, as in the torrents of today, but remained upon the land; nor did the constant action of the sun's rays then, as now, produce rapid evaporation. The beds of these forest trees were filled with fallen leaves and limbs, until the free passage of the water was held back, and, in many cases, wholly prevented from flowing at all. It then spread itself over the low places, and thus formed pools, ponds and miniature lakes, which slowly trickled out and down to the mills, where it furnished sufficient power to run them, if necessary, a great part of the year. But the flight of time went on; the lands were cleared out and, under the warm rays of the summer sun, evaporation followed, and these fountains succumbed to their magic influence. Following in the line of advancing civilization came the open, and then the blind, or tile, drain; and to-day, whore stood the heavy timber and these lakes of water, the eye is gladdened by fine farms and fields of waving grain.

Passage source: The History of Clinton County, Ohio, published 1882.

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 Chester Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 449 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 449 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Kingman between 1919 and 1974: 384 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Allen, A. (Avery) 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 Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.Guepinia spathularia (Schwein.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
Specimen of Boletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) SnellBoletellus chrysenteroides (Snell) Snell1935Cooke, William BridgeCowan's Creek
Specimen of Boletus bicolor RaddiBoletus bicolor Raddi1935Cooke, William BridgeCowan's Creek
A photograph of the species Claviceps purpurea, not of this specimenClaviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul.1919Lewis H. L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Corydalus cornutus, not of this specimenCorydalus cornutus (Linnaeus, 1758)1920E. C. StinsonHarveysburg
A photograph of the species Cladonia fimbriata, not of this specimenCladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1923Taylor, C.J.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Parmelia Acharius, not of this specimenParmelia Acharius, 18031924Taylor, L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1924Taylor, C.L.Wilmington
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Todd Fork, near present day US 68 estimated based off Fishes of Ohio map
A photograph of the species Mustela frenata, not of this specimenMustela frenata Lichtenstein, 18311927Hazard, F. O.Reesville, Clinton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hazard, F. O.near Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma jeffersonianum, not of this specimenAmbystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)1929Hazard, F. O.Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio

All 449 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Kingman: 1 plant. All of them 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
Wilson Site Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Clinton 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
Kingman0.7 miles15
Oakland2.5 miles13
Gurneyville3.5 miles15
New Burlington3.7 miles15
McKays4.0 miles15
Little Center4.4 miles14
Sligo4.9 miles13
Vandervorts Corners5.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122539302The 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 1062920. 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.