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

Powers, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gorham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43521. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morenci quadrangle.

Powers within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Powers, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Powers, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1,064 shown

Museums hold 1,064 specimens collected within 10 miles of Powers between 1893 and 1975: 1,058 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ALVIN PYLE, CHAS M BUTLER, CLARENCE CLARK 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 Puccinia menthae, not of this specimenPuccinia menthae Pers.1893Fink B.Fayette
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1909CHAS M BUTLERMORENCI
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis biguttatus, not of this specimenHybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bean Creek, within central Franklin township, near Fayette, Franklin township

All 1,064 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Powers in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindPowers-Morenci fire reported power lines down on SR 108 in Chesterfield Township.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPowers-The public estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPowers-Trained spotters reported four to five foot diameter trees blown down east of Fayette.

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Ritters (historical)2.0 miles16
Thelma2.5 miles15
Inlet3.8 miles15
Fayette4.1 miles16
Oakshade5.2 miles15
Tedrow5.6 miles15
Denson5.7 miles15
Zone5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055296. 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.