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

Wood Valley, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Claridon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43314. It stands on Bee Run. The Survey maps it on the Denmark quadrangle.

Wood Valley within Marion County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

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 Wood Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Wood Valley, surveyed 1913

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 197 shown

Museums hold 197 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wood Valley between 1837 and 1975: 183 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Ogilvie, Baumgartner, L., Breiding 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 Sagittaria latifolia Willd.Sagittaria latifolia Willd.1837Frank B
Specimen of Sicyos angulatus P.J.BergiusSicyos angulatus P.J.Bergius1837Frank Bin civitatate Ohio
Specimen of Elasmus albizziae Burks, 1965Elasmus albizziae Burks, 19651964J. Peacock[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1919W. J. CampbellEdison
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Marion
A photograph of the species Helminthosporium teres, not of this specimenHelminthosporium teres Sacc.1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919MCFARLAND F. T.Marion
A photograph of the species Photinus pyralis, not of this specimenPhotinus pyralis (Linnaeus, 1767)1923not recordedMarion
A photograph of the species Rallus limicola, not of this specimenRallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 18191923Lyle D. MillerClaridon, Lake Aquilla
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1924Lyle D. MillerClaridon
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Montgomery Twp.: Tymochtee Creek trib., Marion Co., Ohio

All 197 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wood Valley: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Caledonia PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Caledonia1.3 miles12
Claridon2.7 miles13
Stringtown (historical)4.1 miles12
Beech (historical)4.2 miles13
Martel5.0 miles12
Kirkpatrick5.1 miles11
Logan (historical)5.2 miles12
Air View Acres5.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2513774. 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.