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

Pratts, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amanda Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45867. The Survey maps it on the Mount Blanchard quadrangle.

Pratts within Hancock County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pratts, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pratts, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1903 county history

15,436 words on this township

The county history of 1903 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Amanda Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Amanda Township - 15,436 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 163 shown

Museums hold 163 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pratts between 1893 and 1967: 156 Animalia, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by CL & LC Hubbs, CLARENCE CLARK, Collector(s): David E. Ferguson 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 Notropis boops, not of this specimenNotropis boops Gilbert, 18841893PH KirschBlanchard River (trib of Maumee River) 3 miles east of Findlay
A photograph of the species Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton1901W. A. KellermanArlington
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
Notropis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Notropis buccatus, not of this specimenNotropis buccatus (Cope, 1865)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1925CL & LC HubbsEagle Creek, due S of Findlay; Maumee River drainage

All 163 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
Mount Blanchard3.2 miles13
Vanlue3.9 miles11
Houcktown4.8 miles13
Beagle (historical)7.4 miles14
Martinstown (historical)7.9 miles14
Arlington8.0 miles14
Williamstown9.9 miles12
South Findlay10.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062953. 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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