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

Woodlyn, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Deercreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43164. It stands on State Run. The Survey maps it on the Williamsport quadrangle.

Woodlyn within Pickaway County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woodlyn, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Woodlyn, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 2,699 shown

Museums hold 2,699 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodlyn between 1829 and 1975: 2,653 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender 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
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans elegans Audubon, 18341829Florence, A. (Arledge)Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981877Jones, H. (Howard)Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 17831879Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Setophaga ruticilla, not of this specimenSetophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus Vieillot, 18081881Jones, H. (Howard)Scioto River bottoms near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, not of this specimenPetrochelidon pyrrhonota (Vieillot, 1817)1881Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1881Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus, 1766)1881Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,699 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodlyn: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
F.H. Brewer Plant Number 8 QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant A-4 & Quarry Blazer Mat'LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Pickaway 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
Williamsport1.1 miles12
Kinderhook2.5 miles12
Atlanta4.1 miles13
Kozy Corners4.6 miles13
Grange Hall5.8 miles14
Pherson5.9 miles13
Westfall6.2 miles13
Crownover Mill6.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063101. 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.