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

Vails Corners, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Bennington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43334. The Survey maps it on the Olive Green quadrangle.

Vails Corners within Morrow County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vails Corners, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Vails Corners, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 347 shown

Museums hold 347 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vails Corners between 1835 and 1974: 242 Animalia, 90 Fungi, 5 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A.P. Morgan, Adler, K. K. 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 Phyllosticta ampelopsidis SpeschnewPhyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew1883KellermanOhio
Specimen of Bovistella MorganBovistella Morgan1885A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.Hypoxylon albocinctum Ellis & Everh.1890A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Polystichum acrostichoides, not of this specimenPolystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott1835Joseph C. FrankOhio, s.loc.
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 Usnea florida, not of this specimenUsnea florida (L.) F.H.Wigg.1838not recorded
A photograph of the species Equisetum arvense, not of this specimenEquisetum arvense L.1870Beardslee, H.C.Moist soil.
A photograph of the species Sphaeria ulmea, not of this specimenSphaeria ulmea Fr.1880W. A. KellermannOhio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882KellermanOhio
unnamed1883KellermanOhio
A photograph of the species Ascochyta Lib., not of this specimenAscochyta Lib., 18301883Kellerman

All 347 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
Bloomfield1.5 miles10
Pagetown3.5 miles10
Sparta3.5 miles9
Aaronsburg (historical)3.9 miles9
Marengo3.9 miles9
Fargo4.1 miles10
Bennington Springs4.4 miles9
South Woodbury6.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065419. 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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