Block
Sophia, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Benton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45880. The Survey maps it on the Payne quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1914 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1914 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Paulding quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Payne quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Payne quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,066 shownMuseums hold 1,066 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sophia (historical) between 1909 and 1973: 1,066 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C L CLARK FROM HOMER PRICE, Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1909 | Collector(s): Harold H. Bailey | Payne |
 | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1910 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Sturnella magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1912 | Price, H. (Homer) | Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Passerherbulus henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1915 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Crooked Creek bottoms, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808 | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne within corporation, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
 | Bubo virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | Payne, Paulding Co., Ohio |
 | Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | not recorded | Payne |
 | Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1916 | Price, H. (Homer) | near Payne, Paulding, Ohio, USA |
All 1,066 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065872. 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.
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