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

Air Line Junction, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Toledo City. It lies in ZIP code area 43607. It stands on Corbutt Island. The Survey maps it on the Toledo quadrangle.

Air Line Junction within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Air Line Junction, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Air Line Junction, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 2,305 shown

Museums hold 2,305 specimens collected within 10 miles of Air Line Junction between 1863 and 1975: 1,990 Animalia, 159 Fungi, 141 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 6 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Austing, G R 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 Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1900F.D. KelseyToledo
Specimen of Lupinus perennis L.Lupinus perennis L.1900Kelsey, F.D.America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
A photograph of the species Lepachys pinnata, not of this specimenLepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray1863Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Nelumbium luteum, not of this specimenNelumbium luteum Willd.1866Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1875LangdonIndian Hill, Kane County
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1885Collector(s): J. A. SingleyToledo
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081885Cooper, W.C.Lambertville
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1889J. Y. PennypackerToledo
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471893not recordedToledo, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionTOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin

All 2,305 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Air Line Junction: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Sulfur. 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
(Facility) Toledo Refinery GulfSulfurPlant
Lula Quarry LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
White Brothers Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ferro Corp Ottawa Chemical DivIronProducer
Interlake Inc/ Toledo, OhioIronProducer
Toledo Pickling & Steel Service IncIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lucas 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
Freemans Gardens1.4 miles16
Nasby1.6 miles16
Vulcan1.7 miles16
Toledo2.3 miles16
Gould2.9 miles14
Auburndale3.4 miles16
East Toledo3.5 miles16
Ottawa Hills3.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064303. 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.