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Slate Ridge Estates, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43110. The Survey maps it on the Canal Winchester quadrangle.

Slate Ridge Estates within Fairfield County

Then and now

1925 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Slate Ridge Estates, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Slate Ridge Estates, surveyed 1925

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1901 county history

1,854 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Bloom Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bloom Township - 1,854 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,937 shown

Museums hold 1,937 specimens collected within 10 miles of Slate Ridge Estates between 1859 and 1975: 1,696 Animalia, 193 Fungi, 47 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bales, B. R., Birch, W., Bitterly, K. (Kermit) 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 Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Trypethelium virens Tuck.Trypethelium virens Tuck.1898Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Anas discors, not of this specimenAnas discors Linnaeus, 17661859Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake "Middle Bank", Fairfield, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedLancaster, Fairfield, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catocala marmorata, not of this specimenCatocala marmorata Edwards, 18641876not recordedSouthern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1882W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Atrichum undulatum, not of this specimenAtrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.1883W. A. KellermanNear Amanda

All 1,937 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
Fairfield Farms1.0 miles16
Cedar Creek1.3 miles16
Greencastle3.0 miles16
Royalton3.1 miles12
Lithopolis3.3 miles16
Slough4.1 miles16
Wesley Chapel4.3 miles12
Cedar Hill4.5 miles12

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 Q122546949The 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 2771461. 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.