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

Shauck, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44813. The Survey maps it on the Shauck quadrangle. It stands 1,345 feet above sea level.

Shauck within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Shauck, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Shauck, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 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 225 shown

Museums hold 225 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shauck between 1837 and 1975: 221 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bird, C., Breiding, G. (George), C. G. Lloyd 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 Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.Thelephora mucida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Fr.1898LloydOhio
A photograph of the species Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1837not recorded
A photograph of the species Empidonax traillii, not of this specimenEmpidonax traillii (Audubon, 1828)1893Robertsunspecified
Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. Lloyd
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Whetstone Creek, at Mt Gilead, ~0.4 mi E of Mount Gilead, Gilead township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Whetstone Creek, at Mt Gilead, ~0.4 mi E of Mount Gilead, Gilead township
A photograph of the species Lythrurus fasciolaris, not of this specimenLythrurus fasciolaris (Gilbert, 1891)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Whetstone Creek, at Mt Gilead, ~0.4 mi E of Mount Gilead, Gilead township
A photograph of the species Rana catesbeiana, not of this specimenRana catesbeiana Shaw, 18021929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Whetstone Cr. At Mt. Gilead, Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Alum Cr. Trib.: Bennington Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Harmony Twp.: Kokosing R. trib., Morrow Co., Ohio

All 225 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 Shauck: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lexington PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morrow County

Storms nearby

8 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Shauck in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
August 2007Tornado (EF1)Shauck$25,000An EF1 tornado touched down in northeastern Morrow County north of Shauck (Johnsville) shortly before 3 pm. The tornado quickly moved southeast into Richland County. In Morrow County, a distinct damage path of downed trees was observed. The tornado was on the ground in Morrow County for perhaps one half mile and had a path no more than 50 yards in width.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindShauck$10,000Numerous large trees and limbs were reported down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindShauck$3,000A wind gust estimated at 60 mph brought down two large trees. Penny size hail was also observed.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindShauck$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. Several large tree limbs were downed.
July 2012HailShauck-Penny sized hail was observed.
June 2007HailShauck-Penny size hail was observed.
June 2006HailShauck-Nickel size hail was observed. A large limb was also reported down.
June 1998HailShauck-no account filed

Every storm 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
North Woodbury1.9 miles13
Kings Corners2.9 miles14
Steam Corners4.2 miles13
Jugs Corners4.2 miles13
Kellker (historical)4.6 miles13
Williamsport4.6 miles13
Pulaskiville6.5 miles13
West Point6.6 miles13

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 ShauckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7490743The 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 1061200. 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.

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.