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

Tobias, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43302. The Survey maps it on the Monnett quadrangle.

Tobias within Marion County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tobias, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Tobias, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 197 shown

Museums hold 197 specimens collected within 10 miles of Tobias between 1919 and 1975: 189 Animalia, 6 Fungi, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Baumgartner, L., Breiding 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 Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965Elasmus albizziae Burks, 19651964J. Peacock[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Marion
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium teres, not of this specimenHelminthosporium teres Sacc.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Photinus pyralis, not of this specimenPhotinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)1923not recordedMarion
A photograph of the species Rallus limicola, not of this specimenRallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 18191923Lyle D. MillerClaridon, Lake Aquilla
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1924Lyle D. MillerClaridon
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Montgomery Twp.: Tymochtee Creek trib., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma tigrinum, not of this specimenAmbystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Pseudacris triseriata, not of this specimenPseudacris triseriata (Wied-Neuwied, 1838)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)W. of Marion, Big Island Twp., Marion Co., Ohio

All 197 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tobias: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Marion PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
J.M. Hamilton and Sons QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Marion Plant QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Kirkpatrick3.1 miles11
Grandview Estates3.2 miles11
River Valley Estates4.6 miles11
Brush Ridge4.6 miles12
Air View Acres5.0 miles12
Logan (historical)5.8 miles12
Bellaire Gardens5.9 miles13
Caledonia6.3 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on TobiasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85809885The 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 1063061. 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.