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

Vans Valley, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1967. It stands in Trenton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43074. It stands on North Fork Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sunbury quadrangle.

Vans Valley within Delaware County

Then and now

1902 to 1967

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Vans Valley, surveyed 1967
Topographic sheet of Vans Valley, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 589 shown

Museums hold 589 specimens collected within 10 miles of Vans Valley between 1882 and 1975: 532 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 19 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan 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 Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.CurtisHypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta decidua, not of this specimenPhyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm.1882Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta ampelopsidis, not of this specimenPhyllosticta ampelopsidis Speschnew1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta chenopodii, not of this specimenPhyllosticta chenopodii Westend.1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Septoria E.M.Fries, not of this specimenSeptoria E.M.Fries, 18191883KellermanOhio
A photograph of the species Septoria oenotherae, not of this specimenSeptoria oenotherae Westend.1883Kellerman, W. A.Ohio
A photograph of the species Hibiscus trionum, not of this specimenHibiscus trionum L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Westerville
A photograph of the species Draba verna, not of this specimenDraba verna L.1891A C WhitneyWesterville
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1895Parker, J.B.Alum Creek

All 589 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 Vans Valley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Galena PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working 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
Greyland Estates1.1 miles13
South Condit2.2 miles13
Condit3.0 miles10
North Condit3.3 miles10
Sunbury3.4 miles13
Walnut Creek3.5 miles13
Center Village3.7 miles13
Keller Pines3.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Vans ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23698519The 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 1062588. 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.