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

Southworth, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45887. It stands on Sixmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delphos quadrangle.

Southworth within Allen County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Southworth, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Southworth, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 county-history sources

23,566 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Spencer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Spencer Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 252 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southworth between 1865 and 1975: 250 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by *ood, Almen N., Buhlman, M. & Buhlman, M., Bureau of Fisheries 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 Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818Alasmidonta marginata Say, 18181908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1908Bureau of FisheriesAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Lophanthus nepetoides, not of this specimenLophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.1865Holzer, L.Delphos
A photograph of the species Hybopsis biguttatus, not of this specimenHybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis boops, not of this specimenNotropis boops Gilbert, 18841929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Lepomis humilis, not of this specimenLepomis humilis (Girard, 1858)1939Roszman, F. D.Jennings Creek, within Van Wert Co, Van Wert County, township n/a

All 252 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Southworth: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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
Suever Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Suever Stone Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southworth in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSouthworth-A trained weather spotter measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindSouthworth-Local media reported a two year old roof was blown off a hog barn near the intersection of Southworth Road and Zion Church road, near Spencerville. The barn was roughly 100 yards long.

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
Needmore (historical)2.0 miles14
Hartford (historical)2.3 miles14
Village Courts I3.3 miles14
Landeck3.6 miles14
Spencerville3.9 miles14
Village Courts II4.2 miles14
Conant4.4 miles14
Holland Court4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049197. 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.