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

Whisper Trace, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43015. The Survey maps it on the Shawnee Hills quadrangle.

Whisper Trace within Delaware County

Then and now

1901 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Whisper Trace, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Whisper Trace, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 2,492 shown

Museums hold 2,492 specimens collected within 10 miles of Whisper Trace between 1850 and 1975: 2,360 Animalia, 71 Plantae, 56 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, Adler, K. K. 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
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
Vernonia maxima Small1871Collector unspecifiedScioto
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Zonotrichia leucophrys, not of this specimenZonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772)1874not recordedColumbus, O, Ohio, USA

All 2,492 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whisper Trace: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Shawnee Division QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Shawnee Division QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Union QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Scioto Village0.6 miles15
Rathbone0.7 miles15
Shawnee Hills2.1 miles15
Hyatts4.0 miles16
Bellepoint4.1 miles15
Bridlespur4.2 miles16
Powell4.3 miles16
Nelson Farms4.5 miles16

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 Q122567850The 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 2771897. 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.