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

Strakers, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Patterson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45388. The Survey maps it on the Osgood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Strakers within Darke County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Strakers (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Strakers (historical), surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1880 county history

3,412 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Patterson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Patterson Township - 3,412 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 142 shown

Museums hold 142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Strakers (historical) between 1915 and 1964: 136 Animalia, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by H. Price, H.L. Lewis, Householder, V. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Tilletia laevis J.G.Kühn	1919	not recorded	Versailles
Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle	1919	s.n.	Versailles
Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.	1919	H.L. Lewis	Versailles
Butorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi E
Dolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausonia
Falco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 1758	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	Ausonia, 1 mi. E
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausoria
Melanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1915	Householder, V.	Ansonia, 1 mi E
Melospiza melodia melodia (A.Wilson, 1810)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E of Ansonia
Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	1915	Householder, V.	1 mi. E Ausouia
Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1915	Housholder	1 mi. E. Ausoria

All 142 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yorkshire	1.3 miles	15
Willowdell	2.2 miles	15
Osgood	2.3 miles	15
Delvin (historical)	2.4 miles	12
North Star	4.2 miles	12
Brock	4.3 miles	12
Frenchtown	4.4 miles	12
North Jacksonville	5.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067528. 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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