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

Wengerlawn, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45309. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle.

Wengerlawn within Montgomery County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wengerlawn, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Wengerlawn, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 1882 county history

18,834 words on this township

The county history of 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clay Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clay Township - 18,834 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 301 shown

Museums hold 301 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wengerlawn between 1897 and 1972: 295 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Arden R. Gaufin, BOYER AND DUELLMAN 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 UredoUredo1897Prof. W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Ferrissia rivularis, not of this specimenFerrissia rivularis (Say, 1817)1904Allen, JohnBrookville
Septoria glumarum Pass.1918Paxton G. E.New Lebanon
A photograph of the species Bombus citrinus, not of this specimenBombus citrinus (Smith, 1854)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus fervidus, not of this specimenBombus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631929not recorded
Bombus nevadensis auricomus (Robertson, 1903)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1929not recorded
A photograph of the species Bombus vagans, not of this specimenBombus vagans Smith, 18541929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus americanorum (Fabricius, 1775)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus fervidus (Fabricius, 1798)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
Bremus impatiens (Cresson, 1863)1929Zeisert, E. E.Montgomery Co., OH, Montgomery, Ohio, United States

All 301 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 Wengerlawn: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Phillipsburg QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Phillipsburg-#421Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Bachman0.9 miles10
Dodson2.0 miles10
Arlington2.2 miles10
Brookville3.8 miles10
Phillipsburg4.0 miles9
Pyrmont4.3 miles10
Swanktown4.6 miles10
Brookville Lakes Estates5.1 miles13

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 Q122541266The 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 1084160. 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.