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Russell, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Gilead Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43338. The Survey maps it on the Mount Gilead quadrangle.

Russell within Morrow County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Russell, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Russell, surveyed 1913

Compare 1913 against another survey:

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 408 shown

Museums hold 408 specimens collected within 10 miles of Russell between 1837 and 1975: 299 Animalia, 88 Fungi, 10 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 Phyllosticta ampelopsidis SpeschnewPhyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew1883KellermanOhio
Specimen of Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.1890A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1890Kofoid
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Sagittaria latifolia, not of this specimenSagittaria latifolia Willd.1837Frank B
A photograph of the species Sicyos angulatus, not of this specimenSicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius1837Frank Bin civitatate Ohio
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1837not recorded
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio

All 408 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 Russell: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Mount Gilead PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

Every working recorded in Morrow 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
Mount Gilead2.3 miles13
Edison3.2 miles13
Cardington3.3 miles13
Fulton3.7 miles9
Hidden Lakes4.4 miles13
Surprise (historical)6.5 miles13
Denmark6.5 miles13
South Woodbury6.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062998. 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.