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

Webster, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45308. It stands on Swamp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Versailles quadrangle.

Webster within Darke 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 Webster, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Webster, surveyed 1911

Compare 1911 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.

In the county-history sources

17,405 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wayne Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 249 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 249 specimens collected within 10 miles of Webster between 1911 and 1975: 234 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 5 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albrecht, C., Albrecht, C., Valentine, B. (Barry) & Valentine, B. (Buena), Andrew R. Moldenke 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 Tilletia laevis J.G.KühnTilletia laevis J.G.Kühn1919not recordedVersailles
Specimen of Ustilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & SwingleUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Kellerm. & Swingle1919s.n.Versailles
Specimen of Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.Ustilago tritici (Bjerk.) Rostr.1919H.L. LewisVersailles
A photograph of the species Fomes lobatus, not of this specimenFomes lobatus Cooke1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Macrolepiota procera, not of this specimenMacrolepiota procera (Scop.) Singer1911OverholtsGettysburg
A photograph of the species Polyporus zonalis, not of this specimenPolyporus zonalis Berk.1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Poria undata, not of this specimenPoria undata (Pers.) Quél.1911Overholts L. O.Gettysburg
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1915Householder, V.Ausonia, 1 mi E
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1915Householder, V.1 mi. E Ausonia
A photograph of the species Falco sparverius, not of this specimenFalco sparverius sparverius Linnaeus, 17581915Householder, V.Ansonia, 1 mi E
A photograph of the species Geothlypis trichas, not of this specimenGeothlypis trichas (Linnaeus, 1766)1915Householder, V.Ausonia, 1 mi. E
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1915Householder, V.1 mi. E Ausoria

All 249 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
Needmore1.5 miles12
Versailles2.5 miles13
North Jacksonville2.8 miles13
Horatio3.6 miles12
Stelvideo4.6 miles12
Frenchtown4.8 miles12
Gettysburg5.3 miles13
New Harrison5.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049299. 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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