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

Slabtown, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45801. The Survey maps it on the Cairo quadrangle.

Slabtown within Allen County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Slabtown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Slabtown, surveyed 1906

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.

In the 1885 county history

35,969 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bath Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bath Township - 35,969 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 260 shown

Museums hold 260 specimens collected within 10 miles of Slabtown between 1893 and 1975: 241 Animalia, 18 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Amstutz, K., Bezdek, H. 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 Medicago sativa L.Medicago sativa L.1961Robert H. Gray1 mile west of Lafayette.
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedCloverdale, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1893PH KirschSugar Creek, 2 miles north of Lima; Maumee River dr.
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893P. KirschLost Creek, Lima, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Regina septemvittata, not of this specimenRegina septemvittata (Say, 1825)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedLima, Sugar Creek
A photograph of the species Amanita frostiana, not of this specimenAmanita frostiana (Peck) Sacc.1902C. W. DawsonLima
A photograph of the species Amanita rubescens, not of this specimenAmanita rubescens Pers.1902C. W. DawsonLima
A photograph of the species Amanita vaginata, not of this specimenAmanita vaginata (Bull.) Lam.1902C. W. DawsonLima
A photograph of the species Flammula sapinea, not of this specimenFlammula sapinea (Fr.) P.Kumm.1902C. W. DawsonLima

All 260 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Slabtown: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, 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
Lima PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Lima QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 2Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Western Ohio Stone Co. Quarry No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms nearby

1 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Slabtown in 1 storm report between 2000 and 2000: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindSlabtown-Trees and power lines down.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
West Cairo3.3 miles15
Cairo3.5 miles15
Country Estates3.6 miles15
Shady Grove (historical)4.2 miles15
Eastwood Estates4.3 miles15
Lima4.3 miles15
Beaver Dam Station5.0 miles13
Beaverdam5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1046327. 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.