BlockWhite Sulphur, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43061. The Survey maps it on the Ostrander quadrangle.
Then and now
1924 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 68 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1924 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1924 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1925 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Delaware quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Ostrander quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
62,743 words on this townshipHistory of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880; 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Scioto Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
D. C. FAY, physician and surgeon ; Ostrander. Among the successful practitioners of medicine in Central Ohio is Dr. D. C. Fay; he was born in Union Co., Ohio, Aug. 10, 1843, the only child of Benjamin A. and Hester (Robinson) Fay, who were early settlers of Union Co. His father was for a number of years Surveyor of that county ; both parents are now living, and reside in Marysville. Union Co., Ohio. Dr. Fay spent his youth with his parents, at home ; his father, who was finely educated, taught him until he was 16 years of age, when he attended an academy ; after returning home, he taught school for two years, and then began the study of medicine with Dr. Southard, of Marysville, Ohio ; in 1864, he attended his first course of lectures at the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1866, graduated at the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati ; soon after graduating, he located in Ostrander, -where he has since remained. He was united in marriage with Mary A. Liggett Jan. 31, 1871 ; she was born in Delaware Co., Ohio, April 25, 1848 ; they have one child, Monna L., born March 7, 1874. . .
Passage source: History of Delaware County and Ohio. Containing a Brief History of the State of Ohio ... Biographical Sketches ... Etc, published 1880.
Anna F., who is a teacher in the Delaware public schools; and Rossiter, residing at Toronto, Canada, where he is in a machinery business. Mr. Kellogg and uamily belong to the Presbyterian Church and he is a member of the board of trustees. His fraternal relati include the Royal Arch Masons and he belongalso to the Grand Army of the Republic, the New England Society, and the Army and Navv Club of Connecticut. His business offices are at No. 56/^ North Sandusky Street.
Passage source: 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.
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 Scioto Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,473 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,473 specimens collected within 10 miles of White Sulphur between 1850 and 1975: 2,342 Animalia, 74 Plantae, 53 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & K. Borror, Adler, K. K., Allgeyer, S. M. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1850 | Kugel, B. (Burt) | near Selma, Ohio, USA |
 | Podiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1860 | Ricke, A. S. | Carlisle, Ohio, USA |
| Vernonia maxima Small | 1871 | Collector unspecified | Scioto | |
 | Centronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829) | 1872 | not recorded | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
 | Ophioglossum vulgatum L. | 1873 | Hussey, J. | |
 | Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1874 | not recorded | Sugar Grove, Ohio, USA |
 | Branta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776) | 1874 | not recorded | Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
 | Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) | 1874 | Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard) | Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA |
 | Phalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1874 | Jasper, T. (Theodore) | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
 | Zonotrichia leucophrys (J.R.Forster, 1772) | 1874 | not recorded | Columbus, O, Ohio, USA |
 | Actitis macularius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | not recorded | Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA |
| Cygnus columbianus (Ord, 1815) | 1875 | not recorded | Ohio Lake Erie, Ohio, USA |
All 2,473 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of White Sulphur: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Owens Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Union Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klondike | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| Scioto | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Sandy Hill | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Warrensburg | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bellepoint | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Adalee Park | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Brindle Corner | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Village At Lehner Woods | 2.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061774. 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.