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

Spring Meadows, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Defiance Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43512. It stands on Preston Run. The Survey maps it on the Defiance East quadrangle.

Spring Meadows within Defiance County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Meadows, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Spring Meadows, surveyed 1907

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 390 shown

Museums hold 390 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Meadows between 1858 and 1974: 377 Animalia, 9 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Angle, E. (Eric) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard), Angle, E. (Eric), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hoschak, J. (John), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)Cyclonaias tuberculata (Rafinesque, 1820)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Trifolium subcaulescens, not of this specimenTrifolium subcaulescens A.Gray1858J. S. NewberryFort Defiance
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1860unknownBrunersburg
A photograph of the species Megascops asio, not of this specimenMegascops asio naevius1891J. O. Snyderunspecified
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1892J. O. Snyderunspecified
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1892J. O. Snyderunspecified
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892J. O. Snyderunspecified
A photograph of the species Dipsacus fullonum, not of this specimenDipsacus fullonum L.1892Collector(s): William Sayer MoffattDefiance
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedDefiance, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionDEFIANCE, OHIO
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893P. KirschAnglaize River, Defiance

All 390 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Meadows: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Indiana Briquetting/ Defiance, OhioIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Defiance 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
Defiance1.5 miles12
Countryside Estates2.0 miles12
Williamstown2.1 miles12
North Town Estates2.6 miles12
Millers Rolling Hills Estates3.2 miles12
Cooks Rolling Hills3.2 miles12
Independence3.3 miles12
Ayersville3.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680196. 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.