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

Valley Springs Addition, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Joseph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43517. It stands on Bluff Run. The Survey maps it on the Edgerton quadrangle.

Valley Springs Addition within Williams County

Then and now

1914 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Valley Springs Addition, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Valley Springs Addition, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 236 shown

Museums hold 236 specimens collected within 10 miles of Valley Springs Addition between 1893 and 1971: 210 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Anson A. Hinkley, Bauer, L. 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 Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.1902Kellerman, W.A.Edgerton
Specimen of Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)Elimia livescens (Menke, 1830)1916Anson A. HinkleySt. Joseph River, Edgerton, North America
Specimen of Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)Gomphus laurae (Williamson, 1932)1946H. PriceSt. Joseph's River, St. Joseph Township, taken near mouth of Fish Creek
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedEdgerton
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedEdgerton, Fish Lake
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771893P. KirschSt. Joseph River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Pimephales notatus, not of this specimenPimephales notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschSt. Josephs River, Edgerton, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aspidium Sw., not of this specimenAspidium Sw.1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyFlorence
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1902W. A. KellermanEdgerton

All 236 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 Valley Springs Addition: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Hoffman Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Weber Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Williams 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
Denmark (historical)1.0 miles12
Blakeslee2.5 miles13
Edgerton2.9 miles12
Mina3.2 miles12
West Buffalo (historical)3.3 miles13
Edon4.7 miles14
Edon Home Court4.8 miles14
Melbern5.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055273. 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.