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

Saint Peter, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Recovery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45846. The Survey maps it on the Coldwater quadrangle.

Saint Peter within Mercer County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 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 Peter, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Saint Peter, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1907 county history

838 words on this township

The county history of 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Recovery Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Recovery Township - 838 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 234 shown

Museums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saint Peter between 1888 and 1973: 209 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adler, K. K., C. Clark 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 unnamed1934P. P. PironeColdwater
Specimen of Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)Sympetrum ambiguum (Rambur, 1842)1944H. PriceWabash River
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888J. R. SlonakerFort Recovery
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891892Landis, H. A.Lake St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podosphaera leucotricha, not of this specimenPodosphaera leucotricha (Ellis & Everh.) E.S.Salmon1906Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Sharpsburg
Glomerella graminicola D.J.Politis1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg.
A photograph of the species Telmatodytes palustris, not of this specimenTelmatodytes palustris (A.Wilson, 1810)1909Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Grand Reservoir, St. Mary's, Mercer, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr, 17921911L. L. WaltersFt Recovery, 4 mi SE
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1913Goodrich, CalvinMonterey
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1913Goodrich, CalvinFort Recovery(3 mi E)

All 234 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
Saint Joseph1.7 miles12
Monterey2.0 miles14
Macedon2.0 miles14
Fort Recovery3.0 miles14
Padua4.5 miles13
Erastus4.5 miles13
Wendelin4.6 miles12
Philothea4.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065275. 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.

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