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

Osceola, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harlan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45152. It stands on Kunkers Run. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Plain quadrangle.

Osceola within Warren County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Osceola, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Osceola, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 2,942 shown

Museums hold 2,942 specimens collected within 10 miles of Osceola between 1885 and 1974: 2,809 Animalia, 96 Fungi, 21 Plantae, 14 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Impatiens fulva, not of this specimenImpatiens fulva Nutt.1885Smith, Ida T.Lebanon
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521892H. SmithLittle Miami River, 1 1/2 mi. above South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Donnaldsoncythere Rioja, not of this specimenDonnaldsoncythere Rioja, 19421892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Uncinocythere stubbsi, not of this specimenUncinocythere stubbsi Hobbs & Walton, 19661892H. SmithCreek About 2 Mile NE Of South Lebanon
A photograph of the species Cathartes aura, not of this specimenCathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758)1900Mills, W. C.Fort Ancient, Warren, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anthophora abrupta, not of this specimenAnthophora abrupta Say, 18371902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus citrinus, not of this specimenBombus citrinus (Smith, 1854)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Brachiacantha ursina, not of this specimenBrachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Coccinella venusta Weise, 18791902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Ectemnius singularis (F.Smith, 1856)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States
Euperilampus triangularis (Say, 1829)1902not recordedFort Ancient State Memorial, Warren Co., OH, Warren, Ohio, United States

All 2,942 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Osceola: 1 producer. 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
Morrow Gravel Plant No 1 Mill & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Warren 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
Middleboro0.9 miles13
Hicks1.2 miles13
Edwardsville1.5 miles13
Blackhawk1.6 miles13
Roachester2.4 miles13
San Je Village2.4 miles13
Butlerville3.3 miles13
Senior3.5 miles16

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 OsceolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888536The 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 1065218. 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.