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

South Plymouth, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jasper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43160. The Survey maps it on the Milledgeville quadrangle.

South Plymouth within Fayette County

Then and now

1916 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of South Plymouth, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of South Plymouth, surveyed 1916

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1914 county history

4,635 words on this township

The county history of 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jasper Township covers early settlers, schools, churches, towns, post offices, etc., 708.

Read the chapter on Jasper Township - 4,635 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 160 shown

Museums hold 160 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Plymouth between 1882 and 1975: 147 Animalia, 7 Fungi, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. 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 Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.Podosphaera clandestina var. clandestina (Wallr.) Lév.1882Kellerman, W.A.America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
Specimen of Spiraea tomentosa L.Spiraea tomentosa L.1882Kellerman, W.A.America borealis: prope Lancaster, Ohio, in foliis Spiraeae tomentosae.
Specimen of Phellinus ferruginosus (Schrad.) Pat.Phellinus ferruginosus (Schrad.) Pat.1898Lloyd, C.G.College Hill, Ohio
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1901Hartley C. P.Sabina
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lagopus, not of this specimenButeo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Falco rusticolus, not of this specimenFalco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
Tiphiidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)Sugar Creek, near NE corner of Clinton County OH locality is approximate based off Fishes of Ohio distribution map
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio

All 160 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2001

The National Weather Service names South Plymouth in 1 storm report between 2001 and 2001: 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
March 2001Thunderstorm WindSouth Plymouth$10,000A Semi truck was blown over along State Route 218 in Washington Court House and trees were knocked down in South Plymouth.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Milledgeville0.9 miles12
Cunningham1.9 miles12
Octa2.2 miles12
West Lancaster3.2 miles12
Luttrell3.4 miles11
Parrott3.7 miles12
Luray3.8 miles12
Edgefield3.9 miles11

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 South PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134288The 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 1056526. 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.

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.