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

Rehoboth, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44830. The Survey maps it on the Fostoria quadrangle.

Rehoboth within Seneca County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rehoboth, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rehoboth, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

6 of 8 shown

Museums hold 8 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rehoboth between 1901 and 1950: 8 Animalia. 6 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Chidester, D. (Dale), Goodpaster, W., Kinsley Labs 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 Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631901not recordedKansas
A photograph of the species Ascaris equorum, not of this specimenAscaris equorum Goeze, 17821928Kinsley LabsKansas City
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Wolf Creek, within central Hopewell township, near Tiffin, Hopewell township
A photograph of the species Sylvilagus floridanus, not of this specimenSylvilagus floridanus (J.A.Allen, 1890)1939Goodpaster, W.Fostoria
A photograph of the species Minytrema melanops, not of this specimenMinytrema melanops (Rafinesque, 1820)1950Chidester, D. (Dale)Wolf Creek, Sec 19 of Liberty township, ~1.9 mi E of Amsden, Liberty township

All 8 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rehoboth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: REE. 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
Union Carbide/ Fostoria, OhioREEProducer

Every working recorded in Seneca 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
Longley1.4 miles11
Amsden3.6 miles11
Fostoria4.4 miles11
Iler4.6 miles11
Raineys (historical)5.9 miles11
Angus6.1 miles11
Kansas6.2 miles11
Hopewell Estates6.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060684. 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.