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

West Canaan, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Canaan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44214. It stands on Shade Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creston quadrangle.

West Canaan within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Canaan, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Canaan, surveyed 1901

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 347 shown

Museums hold 347 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Canaan between 1889 and 1975: 289 Animalia, 49 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, B. Montgomery & J. Houser, Bruce Fink 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 Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)1930B. Montgomery & J. Houser2 miles northeast of Wooster
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1891Selby A. D.Wayne Co.
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Passer domesticus, not of this specimenPasser domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Spizella pusilla, not of this specimenSpizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thryomanes bewickii, not of this specimenThryomanes bewickii (Audubon, 1827)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1896Selby A. D.Creston
A photograph of the species Aster vimineus, not of this specimenAster vimineus Lam.1897Selby, A.D.; Thorne, B.H.New Pittsburg road

All 347 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
Aukerman1.9 miles11
Golden Corners2.2 miles16
Armstrong2.4 miles11
Burbank3.0 miles16
Canaan3.0 miles16
Congress3.4 miles11
Hermanville4.8 miles16
Indian Head Village5.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061734. 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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