Alexander, Ohio

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.

1903 1994

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.

• 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Northfield quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alexander between 1993 and 2000, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bedford
• Brecksville
• Garfield Heights
• Glendale
• Henry
• Independence

Every fire recorded in Cuyahoga County

Museums hold 1,482 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alexander between 1876 and 1975: 1,421 Animalia, 44 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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
	Osmunda claytoniana L.	1894	Winkler, H.J.	Cleveland.
	Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.	1897	Winkler, H.J.	Woods, Cleveland.
	Claytonia virginica L.	1897	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1897-04]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Cuyahoga Co.
	Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1876	A. Hall	unspecified
	Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)	1876	A. Hall	unspecified
	Dendroica fusca (Statius Müller, 1776)	1876	A. Hall	unspecified
	Dendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772)	1876	A. Hall	unspecified
	Seiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766)	1876	A. Hall	unspecified
	Baeolophus bicolor bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1877	A. Hall	unspecified
	Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1877	A. Hall	unspecified
	Cryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.	1890	R. H. Ingraham	Miles
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio

All 1,482 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Alexander: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bloating Material, 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.

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057258. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.