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Olentangy High Bluffs, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Columbus City. It lies in ZIP code area 43235. The Survey maps it on the Powell quadrangle.

Olentangy High Bluffs within Franklin County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Olentangy High Bluffs, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Olentangy High Bluffs, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Columbus city, in the words of 1858.

1858, Columbus City

Beginnings Of Ohio

The Mound Builders and Indians - First White Settlements and Struggle for Possession - Indian Village at the Forks of the Scioto Attacked by Crawford and Dispersed - The Ohio Company, the Scioto Company and Symmes Purchase - Indian Power Broken and British Hopes Blasted - First Surveys - Topography, Geology and Soil of Franklin County.

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In the 1858 county history

895,918 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 Columbus City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Columbus City - 895,918 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,277 shown

Museums hold 3,277 specimens collected within 10 miles of Olentangy High Bluffs between 1804 and 1975: 3,195 Animalia, 50 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. P., A. J. Penniman 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 Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Serpoleskea confervoides, not of this specimenSerpoleskea confervoides (Brid.) Loeske1842W. S. Sullivant6 miles above Columbus
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1870not recordedFranklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1873J M Wheaton
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Muriealin, JFlint?
A photograph of the species Aquila chrysaetos, not of this specimenAquila chrysaetos canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedFranklin, Ohio, USA
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 Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOlentangy River, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 3,277 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
Northwoods0.5 miles16
Mount Air0.6 miles16
Flint1.0 miles16
Worthington Hills1.1 miles16
Worthington2.7 miles17
Linworth3.2 miles17
Riverlea3.5 miles17
Sharon4.6 miles14

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 Q122547568The 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 1059963. 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.