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

Roselms, 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 45849. The Survey maps it on the Oakwood quadrangle. It stands 2,356 feet above sea level.

Roselms 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 Roselms, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roselms, 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 Roselms 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.

Storms nearby

2 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Roselms in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2004: 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2004Thunderstorm WindRoselms-Law enforcement reported trees down near Roselms.
November 2002Tornado (F3)Roselms-This tornado originated in Van Wert county and crossed into Paulding county 3 miles southwest of Roselms and exited Paulding county about 2.5 miles southeast of Oakwood. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage along the entire path in Paulding county, with only one structure remaining standing in the town of Roselms, in which the town residents had taken cover in the basement.

Every storm recorded in Paulding 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
Plumbs Cross Roads (historical)1.7 miles10
Timberville (historical)2.8 miles10
Grover Hill3.0 miles10
Mandale3.1 miles12
Murat (historical)3.8 miles10
Newburgh (historical)4.4 miles10
Melrose5.0 miles10
Goodwin (historical)5.4 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on RoselmsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7368259The 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 1045199. 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.