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

Westerville Estates, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1967. It stands in Harlem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43082. It stands on Duncan Run. The Survey maps it on the Sunbury quadrangle.

Westerville Estates within Delaware County

Then and now

1902 to 1967

The same ground, surveyed 65 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westerville Estates, surveyed 1967
Topographic sheet of Westerville Estates, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Westerville Estates between 2009 and 2009, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 495 shown

Museums hold 495 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westerville Estates between 1875 and 1975: 456 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 15 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, A. P. Morgan 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 unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1875Muriealin, JFlint?
A photograph of the species Hibiscus trionum, not of this specimenHibiscus trionum L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Westerville
A photograph of the species Draba verna, not of this specimenDraba verna L.1891A C WhitneyWesterville
Specimen of Hypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.CurtisHypoxylon crocopeplum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon howeianum PeckHypoxylon howeianum Peck1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.CurtisHypoxylon illitum (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1896A. P. Morgan
Specimen of Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1912Bales, B. R.Hocking, Ohio, USA

All 495 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
Harlem1.4 miles13
Lake of the Woods2.2 miles13
Maxtown (historical)2.7 miles14
Center Village2.7 miles13
Ralph (historical)2.9 miles13
Windale Farms3.0 miles13
Keller Pines3.5 miles13
Hoover Woods3.9 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 Q122594560The 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 2486108. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.