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

Tiffin Meadows, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Brady Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43557. It stands on Flat Run. The Survey maps it on the West Unity quadrangle.

Tiffin Meadows within Williams County

Then and now

1913 to 1990

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 Tiffin Meadows, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Tiffin Meadows, surveyed 1913

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 1905 county history

3,109 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Brady Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Brady Township - 3,109 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 119 shown

Museums hold 119 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tiffin Meadows between 1890 and 1974: 118 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C.H. Kennedy, CLARENCE CLARK 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 Plowrightia morbosa, not of this specimenPlowrightia morbosa (Schwein.) Sacc.1890Woodard EdwinStryker
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1893P. KirschTiffin River, West Unity, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011927Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Sturnus vulgaris, not of this specimenSturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 17581927Price, H. (Homer)Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Mustela nivalis, not of this specimenMustela nivalis allegheniensis (Rhoads, 1901)1929R. BernathStryker
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Bridgewater Twp.: Nettle Cr., Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Blakeslee: St. Joseph's river, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1930Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.)Nettle Lake, Williams, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ambystoma texanum, not of this specimenAmbystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Conant, R. (Roger)Near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris triseriata, not of this specimenPseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Conant, R. (Roger)Extension Southeastern, near Stryker, Williams Co., Ohio
Natrix erythrogaster neglecta Conant, 19491932Conant, R. (Roger)Blakeslee, Williams Co., Ohio

All 119 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Stryker1.4 miles14
Terrace Aires1.4 miles14
Lock Port2.1 miles14
Hickory Hills3.8 miles12
West Unity4.9 miles14
Wilna5.3 miles11
Lakeland Woods Estates5.5 miles11
Shaffers Acres5.7 miles11

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 Q122548044The 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 1055272. 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.