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

Six Points, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Portage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43466. The Survey maps it on the Jerry City quadrangle.

Six Points within Wood County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Six Points, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Six Points, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 732 shown

Museums hold 732 specimens collected within 10 miles of Six Points between 1894 and 1975: 697 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. M., B. BURGER, Baumgartner, L. 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 Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1901Kellerman, W.A.Bowling Green
Specimen of Physoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.ShawPhysoderma zeae-maydis F.J.F.Shaw1912E. G. ArzbergerStation grounds
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll) & Williamson, E. B.Big Darby Creek, no more precise locality beyond township, near Darbydale OH, Pleasant Township
A photograph of the species Aristida purpurascens, not of this specimenAristida purpurascens Poir.1901William KellermanNear Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Phyllachora lespedezae, not of this specimenPhyllachora lespedezae (Schwein.) Sacc.1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae (Thüm.) Peck1901W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora abietis-canadensis (Farl.) C.A.Ludw.1902W.A. KellermanBowling Green
Melampsora populina (Jacq.) Lév.1902W. A. KellermanBowling Green
Stemphylium cucurbitacearum Osner1915Gilbert W. W.Bowling Green
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1917E L MOSELEYBOWLING GREEN

All 732 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 Six Points: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Macritchie Materials Inc QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wood 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
Jerry City3.3 miles15
Cloverdale4.2 miles15
West Millgrove4.3 miles11
Wayne4.5 miles14
Mermill4.9 miles14
Hatton5.1 miles14
Mungen5.1 miles14
Trombley5.2 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 Six PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134275The 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 1063019. 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.