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

Peerless, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It lies in ZIP code area 43011. The Survey maps it on the Olive Green quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Peerless within Delaware County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Peerless (historical), surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Peerless (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 358 shown

Museums hold 358 specimens collected within 10 miles of Peerless (historical) between 1837 and 1974: 250 Animalia, 94 Fungi, 4 Plantae, 4 Chromista, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, B. Fink 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 Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio
Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel1883W. A. KellermanOhio
Botrytis vulgaris (Link) Fr.1883Dr. W. A. KellermanOhio
Nummularia microplaca (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1883WA KellermanOhio

All 358 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
East Liberty3.2 miles10
Olive Green4.1 miles10
Stark Corners5.1 miles10
North Condit6.0 miles10
Condit6.4 miles10
Kingston Center6.4 miles11
South Condit7.2 miles13
Greyland Estates8.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065491. 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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