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

Village Courts II, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45887. The Survey maps it on the Spencerville quadrangle.

Village Courts II within Allen County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Village Courts II, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Village Courts II, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the 1885 county history

23,566 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Spencer Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Spencer Township - 23,566 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 223 shown

Museums hold 223 specimens collected within 10 miles of Village Courts II between 1865 and 1975: 221 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by *ood, Almen N., Buhlman, M. & Buhlman, M., Bureau of Fisheries 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 Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818Alasmidonta marginata Say, 18181908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)Ligumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1908Bureau of FisheriesAuglaize River, Defiance
Specimen of Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)Quadrula pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1908not recordedAuglaize River, Defiance
A photograph of the species Lophanthus nepetoides, not of this specimenLophanthus nepetoides (L.) Benth.1865Holzer, L.Delphos
A photograph of the species Hybopsis biguttatus, not of this specimenHybopsis biguttatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis boops, not of this specimenNotropis boops Gilbert, 18841929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Opsopoeodus emiliae, not of this specimenOpsopoeodus emiliae Hay, 18811929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, within Amanda township, near Spencerville, Amanda township
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1941Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Auglaize River, Sec 22 of Logan township, ~4.3 mi N of Buckland, Logan township

All 223 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 Village Courts II: 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
Sandkuhl Tiie Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandkuhl Tile Co PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Spencerville0.3 miles14
Village Courts I0.9 miles14
Hartford (historical)3.0 miles14
Conant4.0 miles14
Southworth4.2 miles14
Needmore (historical)5.7 miles14
Landeck6.9 miles14
Kemp7.0 miles14

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 Q122592922The 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 2651729. 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.