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

Rachel Heights, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bryan City. It lies in ZIP code area 43506. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bryan quadrangle.

Rachel Heights within Williams County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rachel Heights, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rachel Heights, surveyed 1914

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 271 shown

Museums hold 271 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rachel Heights between 1890 and 1974: 246 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, Bauer, L. 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
Specimen of Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.1902Kellerman, W.A.Edgerton
Specimen of Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)1916Anson A. HinkleySt. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
Specimen of Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)1946H. PriceSt. Joseph's River, St. Joseph Township, taken near mouth of Fish Creek
A photograph of the species Plowrightia morbosa, not of this specimenPlowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.1890Woodard EdwinStryker
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedEdgerton
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschSt. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1902W. A. KellermanEdgerton

All 271 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rachel Heights: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dennis Winzler Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
J.E. Brown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Williams 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
Oak Meadows0.8 miles13
Willow Glenn1.2 miles13
Pleasant Meadows1.4 miles13
Norlick Place1.6 miles13
Bryan1.7 miles13
Durham Estates1.8 miles13
Krohns Acres1.8 miles13
Jerrys First Addition2.4 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122567023The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055266. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.