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

Taborville, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Auburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44023. The Survey maps it on the Aurora quadrangle.

Taborville within Geauga County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Taborville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Taborville, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

44,957 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 Auburn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Auburn Township - 44,957 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 404 shown

Museums hold 404 specimens collected within 10 miles of Taborville between 1893 and 1975: 374 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, A. Woolman 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
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Nocomis micropogon, not of this specimenNocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893WoolmanAurora branch of Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Galba Schrank, not of this specimenGalba Schrank, 18031904Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenChagrin River, Geauga Lake
A photograph of the species Menetus dilatatus, not of this specimenMenetus dilatatus (A.Gould, 1841)1904Allen, JohnGeauga Lake
A photograph of the species Pseudosuccinea columella, not of this specimenPseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817)1906Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenGeauga Lake, nearby pool
A photograph of the species Acronicta dactylina, not of this specimenAcronicta dactylina Grote, 18741908Teraguchi, S. (Sonja)OH Geauga Co. Troy Twp. Snow Lake
Galba obrussa (Say, 1825)1908Collector(s): Joel Asaph AllenGeauga Lake, second pool nearby
Lyogyrus walkeri (Pilsbry, 1898)1909Allen, JohnGeauga Lake
Planorbidae1909Allen, JohnGeauga Lake, on pieces of wood

All 404 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Taborville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Haueter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Set Silica Sand Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Geauga 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
Beartown0.4 miles17
Julia (historical)2.0 miles17
Spring Valley2.4 miles17
Beacon Hill2.5 miles15
Bainbridge2.9 miles15
Auburn Center3.1 miles14
Lake Lucerne3.8 miles15
McFarlands Corners4.1 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122596245The 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 1049239. 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.