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

Plumbs Cross Roads, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45827. It stands on Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakwood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Plumbs Cross Roads within Paulding County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Plumbs Cross Roads (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Plumbs Cross Roads (historical), surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

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 35 shown

Museums hold 35 specimens collected within 10 miles of Plumbs Cross Roads (historical) between 1893 and 1973: 35 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CLARENCE CLARK, F. S. Badger, G. Y. Belyea 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 Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893P. KirschAuglaize River, Oakwood, Ohio
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1928not recordedAuglaize River, Junction
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias Linnaeus, 17581929H. I. PierceGrover Hill
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1940Rhoades, R. (Randall)Little Auglaize River, within Paulding Co, Paulding County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Orconectes immunis, not of this specimenOrconectes immunis (Hagen, 1870)1940R. Rhoades & C. ClarkLittle Auglaize River, 2 miles South of Mandale
A photograph of the species Orconectes rusticus, not of this specimenOrconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852)1940R. Rhoades & C. ClarkLittle Auglaize River, 2 mi. S. of Mandale
A photograph of the species Enallagma antennatum, not of this specimenEnallagma antennatum (Say, 1840)1942H. Pricemouth of Blue Creek
Macromia illinoiensis Walsh, 18621942H. PriceAuglaize River at Fort Brown
A photograph of the species Somatochlora linearis, not of this specimenSomatochlora linearis (Hagen, 1861)1943H. PriceBrown Township, near Auglaize River, North of Melrose

All 35 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
Roselms1.7 miles10
Mandale1.7 miles12
Timberville (historical)2.8 miles10
Murat (historical)3.8 miles10
Grover Hill4.7 miles10
Newburgh (historical)5.2 miles10
Melrose6.0 miles10
Oakwood6.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1961053. 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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