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

Walton, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1986. It stands in McDonald Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43326. The Survey maps it on the Alger quadrangle.

Walton within Hardin County

Then and now

1913 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Walton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Walton, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 443 shown

Museums hold 443 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walton between 1885 and 1973: 200 Protozoa, 181 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. P. Morgan, A. P. M. 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 Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1923W.G. StoverKenton
Specimen of Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)Procambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1939J. PeltonPond near Kenton
Specimen of unnamed1942?
A photograph of the species Bovistella radicata, not of this specimenBovistella radicata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat.1885A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Gloeophyllum trabeum, not of this specimenGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1886A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Craterium leucocephalum, not of this specimenCraterium leucocephalum (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Ditmar, 18131888Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston
A photograph of the species Diderma floriforme, not of this specimenDiderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers., 17941888not recordedOhio: Preston
A photograph of the species Calonema aureum, not of this specimenCalonema aureum Morgan, 18931889Morgan, A. P.; Preston, O.
Tapesia derelicta Morgan1889A. P. MorganPreston
Metatrichia vesparia (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek. ex G.W.Martin & Alexop., 19691890Morgan, A. P.; Preston,O.
Physarum serpula Morgan, 18961892Morgan A. P.United States-- Ohio, Preston
Trichia favoginea (Batsch) Pers., 17941892Morgan, A. P.Ohio: Preston

All 443 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Jump2.2 miles17
Foraker2.9 miles11
Jumbo3.1 miles17
McGuffey3.8 miles16
Quickstep4.1 miles16
Huntersville5.4 miles16
Belmont Court6.0 miles16
Alger6.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1047550. 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.

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