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

Ovid, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43004. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Ovid 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 Ovid, surveyed 1966

Topographic sheet of Ovid, 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 county-history sources

402 words on this township

History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The village of Smithville was laid out by Wm. A. Smith, in the year 1852. There is a post oflice at this place, called " Black Lick post office." It Avas established in 1852. Thomas McCollum was the first postmaster, and continued until 1856, Avhen he was succeeded by C. S. Morris, Esq.; and in 1857 Morris was succeeded by Ezekiel Compton. There is another, and older post office in this township, at Headley's Corners, called " Ovid post office." It was established in 1832. Dr. Ezekiel Whitehead was the first postmaster. He

Passage source: History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published 1858.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jefferson Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 2,040 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,040 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ovid between 1840 and 1975: 1,836 Animalia, 161 Plantae, 43 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Basinger, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Sporisorium sorghi Ehrenb. ex Link	1900	W. A. Kellerman
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1840	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Amblystegium varium (Hedw.) Lindb.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Anoectangium ciliatum (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	Sullivant, W.S.	Columbus
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Archidium ohioense Schimp. ex Müll.Hal.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Astomum muhlenbergianum (Sw.) Grout	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Atrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Aulacomnium heterostichum (Hedw.) Bruch & Schimp.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1842	W. S. Sullivant	Columbus
Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Masons Run, Franklin County, Ohio
Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1897	R. Osburn & E. Williamson	Alum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 2,040 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ovid: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Claycraft No 4 & 5 Pits	Clay	Producer
	Claycraft Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Franklin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
The Greens At Clarenton	0.6 miles	12
Jefferson Estates	0.7 miles	12
Colts Neck	0.8 miles	12
Parkwood	0.9 miles	12
Kitzmiller Crossing	1.0 miles	12
The Woods At Havens Run	1.2 miles	12
New Albany Farms	1.2 miles	12
Havenswood	1.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071139. 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.