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

Paget, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Paget within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Paget, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Paget, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 against another survey:

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 2,794 shown

Museums hold 2,794 specimens collected within 10 miles of Paget between 1837 and 1975: 2,539 Animalia, 139 Fungi, 101 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 5 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan 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 Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.1896F. L. StevensOhio
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.CurtisHypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA

All 2,794 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 Paget: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Delaware QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Kensington Place1.8 miles13
Leonardsburg2.8 miles11
Kilbourne3.0 miles11
Jones3.2 miles13
Pluggys Town (historical)3.2 miles13
Delaware3.3 miles13
Oakdale3.5 miles13
Shelbourne Forest3.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062928. 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.