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

Pleasant Home, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Congress Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44287. The Survey maps it on the West Salem quadrangle.

Pleasant Home within Wayne County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pleasant Home, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Home, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 126 shown

Museums hold 126 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Home between 1897 and 1973: 88 Animalia, 38 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, Bruce, J. A., Collector(s): Woodrow W. Goodpaster 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
A photograph of the species Aster vimineus, not of this specimenAster vimineus Lam.1897Selby, A.D.; Thorne, B.H.New Pittsburg road
A photograph of the species Carya glabra, not of this specimenCarya glabra (Mill.) Sweet1897Selby, A.D.New Pittsburg Road
A photograph of the species Carex platyphylla, not of this specimenCarex platyphylla J.Carey1898Selby, A.D.Fort Hill
A photograph of the species Carex rosea, not of this specimenCarex rosea Willd.1898Selby, A.D.Fort Hill
A photograph of the species Carex scoparia, not of this specimenCarex scoparia Schkuhr ex Willd.1898Selby, A.D.Fort Hill
A photograph of the species Aureolaria virginica, not of this specimenAureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TLittle Killbuch
A photograph of the species Betula alleghaniensis, not of this specimenBetula alleghaniensis Britton1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TLittle Killbuck
A photograph of the species Brachyelytrum erectum, not of this specimenBrachyelytrum erectum (Schreb.) P.Beauv.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TLittle Killbuck
A photograph of the species Digitaria ischaemum, not of this specimenDigitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Muhl.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TPeewee Hollow
A photograph of the species Festuca subverticillata, not of this specimenFestuca subverticillata (Pers.) E.B.Alexeev1899Selby, A.D.Armstrong
A photograph of the species Fraxinus pennsylvanica, not of this specimenFraxinus pennsylvanica var. lanceolata (Borkh.) Sarg.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TN of Armstrong
A photograph of the species Helianthus microcephalus, not of this specimenHelianthus microcephalus Torr. & A.Gray1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TN of Armstrong

All 126 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Pleasant Home in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011HailPleasant Home-Penny sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lattasburg2.5 miles11
Congress3.1 miles11
West Salem3.9 miles11
Eight Square (historical)4.5 miles11
Armstrong5.2 miles11
New Pittsburg5.3 miles11
Cedar Valley5.4 miles11
Aukerman5.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061554. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.