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Saint Charles, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Reily Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45013. The Survey maps it on the Millville quadrangle.

Saint Charles within Butler County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saint Charles, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Saint Charles, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1905 county history

14,974 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Reily Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Reily Township - 14,974 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,775 shown

Museums hold 1,775 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saint Charles between 1879 and 1975: 812 Animalia, 757 Fungi, 135 Plantae, 57 Protozoa, 13 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A. V. J.; W. G. S., A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross 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 Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.Taphrina communis (Sadeb.) Giesenh.1888J. L. James
Specimen of unnamed1893B. FinkOxford.
Specimen of Hordeum sativum Pers.Hordeum sativum Pers.1895Kellerman, W.A.Oxford, Butler Co. Ohio.
A photograph of the species Spiza americana, not of this specimenSpiza americana (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa solitaria, not of this specimenTringa solitaria A.Wilson, 18131879Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Charadrius semipalmatus, not of this specimenCharadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 18251880not recorded
A photograph of the species Chlidonias niger, not of this specimenChlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tringa melanoleuca, not of this specimenTringa melanoleuca (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Gavia immer, not of this specimenGavia immer (Brunnich, 1764)1881Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758)1881Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Taphrina pruni, not of this specimenTaphrina pruni (Fuckel) Tul.1888J. L. JamesOxford.
A photograph of the species Xylaria polymorpha, not of this specimenXylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.1888James J. F.Oxford

All 1,775 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Bunker Hill2.1 miles14
Auburn2.1 miles14
Newkirk2.6 miles12
Reily3.1 miles12
Layhigh3.2 miles14
Okeana3.3 miles15
Macedonia4.1 miles15
Millville4.7 miles14

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 Saint CharlesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197570The 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 1065266. 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.