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Troyton, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. The Survey maps it on the Waldo quadrangle.

Troyton within Delaware County

Then and now

1924 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Troyton, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Troyton, surveyed 1924

Compare 1924 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,457 shown

Museums hold 1,457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Troyton between 1837 and 1975: 1,257 Animalia, 94 Fungi, 92 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K., Allgeyer, S. 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
Specimen of Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.Caeoma agrimoniae Schwein.1896F. L. StevensOhio
Specimen of Peronospora sordida Berk. & BroomePeronospora sordida Berk. & Broome1896F.L. StevensHayden Falls
Specimen of Plasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De ToniPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Agaricus velutipes, not of this specimenAgaricus velutipes Curtis1837J.R. Paddock
A photograph of the species Polyporus versicolor, not of this specimenPolyporus versicolor (L.) Fr.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1882not recordedDelaware, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio
Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel1883W. A. KellermanOhio

All 1,457 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 Troyton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 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
Penry QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Penry QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms nearby

5 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Troyton in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTroyton3 hurt, $5,000A camper trailer was overturned at Delaware State Park. A tree also fell onto a tent of campers.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTroyton$3,000A semi truck trailer was blown over on US Route 23 south of State Route 229.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindTroyton$1,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindTroyton$500The top of a white pine tree was snapped off.
June 2015FloodTroyton-Troy Road was closed between Norton Road and Radnor Road due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Delaware 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
Norton2.8 miles15
Meredith2.8 miles12
Radnor3.8 miles12
Windsor Corners3.9 miles15
Oakdale4.4 miles13
Robertsburg4.8 miles12
Shelbourne Forest5.1 miles13
Hayes Colony5.2 miles13

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 Q122547798The 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 1063063. 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.

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.