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

Walnut Grove, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rushcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43311. The Survey maps it on the West Mansfield quadrangle.

Walnut Grove within Logan County

Then and now

1913 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 79 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 Grove, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Walnut Grove, surveyed 1913

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 531 shown

Museums hold 531 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut Grove between 1862 and 1975: 477 Animalia, 37 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. R. Gaufin, A. Spreitzer 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 Poria medulla-panis (Jacq.) CookePoria medulla-panis (Jacq.) Cooke1906Penfield, O.; C. B. WilsonRidgeway
Specimen of Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.1911Errard P.Bellefontaine
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1930E. Williamson & et al.[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Carex buxbaumii, not of this specimenCarex buxbaumii Wahlenb.1862W. M. CanbyBelfontaine.
A photograph of the species Nasturtium officinale, not of this specimenNasturtium officinale R.Br.1862W. M. CanbyBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Protographium marcellus, not of this specimenProtographium marcellus (Cramer, 1777)1869not recordedBellefontaine
A photograph of the species Otus asio, not of this specimenOtus asio naevius (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1874Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Trautman, M. A. (Mary Auten)Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Solenostoma crenuliforme, not of this specimenSolenostoma crenuliforme (Austin) Steph.1877not recorded
A photograph of the species Meleagris gallopavo, not of this specimenMeleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot, 18171882W.C. HamptonMt. Victory
A photograph of the species Gallinago delicata, not of this specimenGallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gallinago gallinago, not of this specimenGallinago gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825)1889McCormick, L. M.Beaver Creek, Logan, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica virens, not of this specimenDendroica virens virens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1891McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Logan, Ohio, USA

All 531 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Walnut Grove in 8 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2020Flash FloodWalnut Grove$10,000A culvert was washed out near the intersection of State Route 47 and County Road 12.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$5,000Several trees were downed.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$5,000A few power poles were downed near the intersection of State Route 47 and County Road 12.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$5,000A roof was blown off of a barn.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$5,000Benjamin Logan Elementary School was damaged.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Grove$1,000A tree fell onto County Road 26.
June 2024Flash FloodWalnut Grove-Water was reported to be rushing over the road near the County Road 26 and County Road 12 intersection.
June 2024Flash FloodWalnut Grove-Several inches of water was rushing over the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Marl City3.4 miles13
Rushsylvania3.4 miles13
North Greenfield3.9 miles13
Horton4.0 miles13
New Jerusalem4.1 miles13
West Mansfield4.5 miles13
Harper4.5 miles13
Big Springs5.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065449. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.