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Roundhead, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Roundhead Township. The Survey maps it on the Roundhead quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Roundhead within Hardin County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Roundhead, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Roundhead, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 86 shown

Museums hold 86 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roundhead between 1885 and 1970: 75 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. P. Morgan, Auten 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 Corethromyces platensis Thaxt.Corethromyces platensis Thaxt.1942?
A photograph of the species Bovistella radicata, not of this specimenBovistella radicata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat.1885A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Gloeophyllum trabeum, not of this specimenGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1886A. P. MorganPreston
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1889A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Bovista dermoxantha, not of this specimenBovista dermoxantha (Vittad.) De Toni1893A. P. MorganPreston
Humaria vitigena Massee & Morgan1893A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Bovista aestivalis, not of this specimenBovista aestivalis (Bonord.) Demoulin1896not recordedPreston
Gloeoporus conchoides Mont.1896C. G. LloydPreston
A photograph of the species Cuscuta gronovii, not of this specimenCuscuta gronovii Willd. ex Schult.1926Genevieve M Leonard; Emery C. LeonardOak Island, near Chippewah Park, Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Indian Lake, Logan Co, ~2.8 mi NE of Russells Point, Stokes township
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Near Roundhead, Hardin Co., Ohio

All 86 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Roundhead in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2000Flash FloodRoundhead$20,000Cars were submerged along route 195.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRoundhead$10,000Trees and large limbs downed.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindRoundhead$3,000Trees were downed near the town of Roundhead due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRoundhead$3,000Several trees were blown down in the western part of the county.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRoundhead$2,000Large limbs were downed.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRoundhead$1,000A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 1998HailRoundhead-no account filed
May 1997HailRoundhead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Jump4.5 miles17
Jumbo4.8 miles17
Walton6.6 miles16
Yelverton6.7 miles11
Quickstep6.9 miles16
Silver Creek8.4 miles11
Foraker9.5 miles11
McGuffey9.6 miles16

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 RoundheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3474551The 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 1065249. 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.