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

Steam Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44904. The Survey maps it on the Blooming Grove quadrangle.

Steam Corners within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

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 Steam Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Steam Corners, surveyed 1915

Compare 1915 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 79 shown

Museums hold 79 specimens collected within 10 miles of Steam Corners between 1920 and 1971: 78 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. G. Lloyd, Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Gelfellen, M. 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
Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. Lloyd
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1944Rausch, R. (Robert)near Richland Co. line, Troy Twp., Morrow Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Boleosoma nigrum, not of this specimenBoleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501945Gelfellen, M. & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township
A photograph of the species Hyborhynchus notatus, not of this specimenHyborhynchus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1945Gelfellen, M.East Branch Whetstone Creek, at TR 76, 3.75 miles NNE of Mount Gilead OH, Washington/Congress Township

All 79 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Steam Corners in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2013Thunderstorm WindSteam Corners$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSteam Corners-Roof was blown off of a trailer and a transformer fell onto another trailer about four-miles WNW of Lexington in Morrow County, near the Richland County line.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSteam Corners-Several trees downed in Steam Corners area.
June 2012HailSteam Corners-Golf ball sized hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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
Jugs Corners1.0 miles13
Kings Corners3.1 miles14
Blooming Grove3.3 miles13
Shauck4.2 miles13
Jackson4.8 miles13
North Woodbury6.0 miles13
Kellker (historical)6.5 miles13
West Point7.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065379. 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.