Rupert, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 1986

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.

• 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS London quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS West Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS West Jefferson quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 529 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rupert between 1885 and 1975: 436 Animalia, 59 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, B. Fink, Betz, E. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Physcia syncolla Tuck. ex Nyl.	1893	Ernst E. Bogue
	Caloplaca sideritis (Tuck.) Zahlb.	1894	E. Bogue	Georgesville.
	Anaptychia comosa (Eschw.) A.Massal.	1895	Ernst E. Bogue
	Chiloscyphus ascendens (Wilson & Hook.) Sull.	1885	W. C. Werner	Georgesville
	Buteo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	London, Madison, Ohio, USA
	Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner	Georgesville
	Lophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.	1890	W. C. Werner	Georgesville
	Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.	1890	W. C. Werner	Georgesville
	Anomodon minor (Hedw.) Lindb.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1891	W. C. Werner	Georgesville
	Leskea gracilescens Hedw.	1891	W. C. Werner
	Andropogon gerardi Vitman	1892	Werner, W.C.	Georgeville

All 529 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rupert: 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.

Every working recorded in Madison County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062997. 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.