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

Shire Cove, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Norwich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43026. It stands on Hayden Run. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Columbus quadrangle.

Shire Cove within Franklin County

Then and now

1901 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Shire Cove, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Shire Cove, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 1858 county history

433 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Norwich Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Norwich Township - 433 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 9,335 shown

Museums hold 9,335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shire Cove between 1804 and 1975: 7,374 Animalia, 1,262 Fungi, 551 Plantae, 117 Chromista, 30 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 19 V 1938 in original publication, Knull, =, ? 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 Cintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De ToniCintractia sorghi (Sorokn) De Toni1900Tyler, F.J.; O. E. JenningsColumbus
A photograph of the species Juniperus virginiana, not of this specimenJuniperus virginiana var. virginiana1804Dr. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1805J. R. PaddockWorthington
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1809Collector unknownWorthington, O. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Hirundo Linnaeus, not of this specimenHirundo Linnaeus, 17581814not recordedColumbus Ohio, Franklin, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Callimome strobiloides, not of this specimenCallimome strobiloides Huber, 19271821C. HuberColumbus
A photograph of the species Solidago riddellii, not of this specimenSolidago riddellii Frank1832W. A. KellermanA few miles N of Columbus.
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1834AnonymousColumbus.
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1837W. S. SullivantNear Columbus
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471897not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897Clevenger, J. F.Columbus
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1897United States Bureau of Fisheries, R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonOhio, Scioto River, Franklin County

All 9,335 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shire Cove: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Calcium. 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
Columbus QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Columbus QuarryCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
River Landings0.8 miles17
Davidson Run0.9 miles17
Ridgewood Estates1.0 miles17
Scioto Run1.5 miles17
Carrington Place1.8 miles16
Britton Farms1.8 miles16
Ashleigh Village2.1 miles16
Heather Ridge2.4 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122549237The 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 2771692. 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.