BlockPluggys Town, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Delaware City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. It stands on Delaware Run. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1924 to 1992The 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.
Compare 1924 against another survey:
On record in Pluggys Town
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 12 of 21 shown
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
St. Mary's Church and Rectorylisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
Delaware County Courthouselisted 1973 · 0.1 miles away
Sandusky Street Historic Districtlisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away
Delaware Public Librarylisted 1983 · 0.2 miles away
Delaware County Jail and Sheriff's Residencelisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
Edward E. Neff Houselisted 1988 · 0.2 miles away
University Hall-Gray's Chapellisted 1985 · 0.2 miles away
Slocum Halllisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
Selby Fieldlisted 1985 · 0.3 miles away
Delaware Post Officelisted 2020 · 0.4 miles away
Edwards Gymnasium/Pfieffer Natatoriumlisted 1985 · 0.4 miles away
Stuyvesant Halllisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
29,036 words on this townshipHistory of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880; 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Delaware City Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Delaware City Township - 29,036 words.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,723 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,723 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pluggys Town (historical) between 1850 and 1975: 2,558 Animalia, 100 Plantae, 60 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ovularia obliqua (Cooke) Oudem. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | |
 | Peronospora arthurii Farl. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Alum Creek |
 | Puccinia asteris Duby | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Alum Creek |
 | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1850 | Kugel, B. (Burt) | near Selma, Ohio, USA |
 | Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | Ricke, A. S. | Carlisle, Ohio, USA |
| Vernonia maxima Small | 1871 | Collector unspecified | Scioto | |
 | Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1872 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
 | Ophioglossum vulgatum L. | 1873 | Hussey, J. | |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA |
 | Branta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776) | 1874 | not recorded | Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
 | Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) | 1874 | Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard) | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
 | Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1874 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
All 2,723 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 0.1 miles | 13 | |
| Delaware Meadows | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| The Ravine | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Applegate Bend | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Lexington Glen | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Shelbourne Forest | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hayes Colony | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Kensington Place | 1.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068737. 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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