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

Oakland, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43054. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Oakland within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Oakland, surveyed 1902

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 1858 county history

761 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Plain Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plain Township - 761 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,462 shown

Museums hold 1,462 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakland between 1890 and 1975: 1,434 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. P. Morgan, Auten 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
A photograph of the species Aster laevis, not of this specimenAster laevis L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Central College
A photograph of the species Hibiscus trionum, not of this specimenHibiscus trionum L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Westerville
Mentha × alopecuroides Hull1890E. V. WilcoxCentral College. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Draba verna, not of this specimenDraba verna L.1891A C WhitneyWesterville
A photograph of the species Dermatocarpon miniatum, not of this specimenDermatocarpon miniatum (L.) W.Mann1892Bogue, E.E.Big Walnut Creek, Blacklick east of Columbus
A photograph of the species Hyperphyscia adglutinata, not of this specimenHyperphyscia adglutinata (Flörke) H.Mayrhofer & Poelt1892Bogue, E.E.Blacklick, east of Columbus
A photograph of the species Lecanora varia, not of this specimenLecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach.1892Bogue, E.E.Blacklick
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894not recordedColumbus 15 mi NE
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1896Wetzstein, A.St. Mary's.
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonMasons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBlack Lick, Franklin County, Ohio

All 1,462 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
Parkwood0.9 miles12
Jefferson Estates1.3 miles12
Colts Neck1.7 miles12
Ovid1.8 miles12
New Albany Farms1.8 miles12
Havenswood2.0 miles12
The Greens At Clarenton2.2 miles12
Fenway2.3 miles12

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 OaklandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85790114The 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 1059944. 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.