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

Walnut Creek, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1967. It stands in Berkshire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43021. It stands on Prairie Run. The Survey maps it on the Sunbury quadrangle.

Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek, surveyed 1967
Topographic sheet of Walnut Creek, 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 2,557 shown

Museums hold 2,557 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut Creek between 1850 and 1975: 2,409 Animalia, 80 Fungi, 66 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 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 unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tympanuchus americanus, not of this specimenTympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852)1874not recordedMonroeville, Ohio, USA

All 2,557 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 Walnut Creek: 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
Galena0.7 miles14
Sunbury Meadows1.2 miles14
Sunbury1.5 miles13
Sunbury Estates2.2 miles10
Hoover Woods2.6 miles13
Heather Glen2.6 miles14
Rome2.9 miles14
Keller Pines2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771367. 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.