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Norton, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Marlboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43356. It stands on Norton Run. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle.

Norton within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Norton, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Norton, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 624 shown

Museums hold 624 specimens collected within 10 miles of Norton between 1837 and 1975: 479 Animalia, 87 Fungi, 47 Plantae, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.P. Morgan, B. R. Laughlin, Beardslee, H.C. 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 Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.1896F. L. StevensOhio
Specimen of Peronospora sordida Berk. & BroomePeronospora sordida Berk. & Broome1896F.L. StevensHayden Falls
Specimen of Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De ToniPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio
Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel1883W. A. KellermanOhio
Botrytis vulgaris (Link) Fr.1883Dr. W. A. KellermanOhio
Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883WA KellermanOhio

All 624 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Norton in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindNorton$2,000A few trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Troyton2.8 miles15
Windsor Corners3.6 miles15
Meredith4.5 miles12
Robertsburg4.7 miles12
Radnor5.3 miles12
Ashley6.5 miles10
Leonardsburg6.9 miles11
Oakdale7.2 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.

Wikipedia article on NortonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134060The 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 1065179. 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.

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.