Otter, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1913 1992

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.

• 1913 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
• 1915 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Richwood quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
• 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Museums hold 445 specimens collected within 10 miles of Otter between 1880 and 1975: 431 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 4 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B., D. & B., D., B., D. & K., D., Baumgartner, L. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 1758	1880	not recorded	Marysville, Union, Ohio, USA
	Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1881	not recorded	Pleasant Valley, Union, Ohio, USA
	Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1894	Mrs. Smyth
	Leucobryum glaucum (Hedw.) Ångstr.	1894	not recorded
	Tetraphis pellucida Hedw.	1894	not recorded
	Thelia asprella (Schimp.) Sull.	1894	Mrs. Smyth
	Uredo	1897	W. A. Kellerman
	Uromyces plumbarius Peck	1897	W. A. Kellerman
	unnamed	1914	not recorded
	Erasmoneura nigra (Gillette, 1898)	1914	H.T. Osborn
	Hydnum erinaceus Bull.	1918	Weir J. R.	Marysville
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1924	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Union, Ohio, USA

All 445 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049046. 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.

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