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Aquilla, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hambden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44024. It stands on Ballards Hill. The Survey maps it on the Chardon quadrangle. 305 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.

Aquilla within Geauga County

Population over time

2 figures

Aquilla fell from 340 to 305 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010340
2020305-35 (-10%)

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Aquilla, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Aquilla, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Hambden township, in the words of 1880.

1880, Hambden Township

Additional Anecdotes And Incidents

Some time in the early settlement of the township, Deacon Pomeroy started in the morning to find his cattle, that had strayed away. He searched the forest through the east part of Hambden, through Thompson and Montville, but found them not. As he was coming home, darkness overtook him near where the Montville road crosses Bates creek, and, at the same time, a pack of hungry wolves, ^hich had probably been following his track for some time, waiting for the darkness, came upon him, with murderous intent.

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In the 1880 county history

9,111 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hambden Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hambden Township - 9,111 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,183 shown

Museums hold 1,183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Aquilla between 1885 and 1975: 1,020 Animalia, 155 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Clewell, A. M. Evans, A. N. Rood 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 Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Werner, Wm. C.Thompson
Specimen of Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Fred Haggart
Specimen of Medeola virginiana L.Medeola virginiana L.1895Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30][label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885W. C. WernerThompson
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1887Leonard, F.E.Little Mountain.
A photograph of the species Dryopteris marginalis, not of this specimenDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1887Leonard, F.E.Munson
A photograph of the species Melospiza georgiana, not of this specimenMelospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)1889Collector(s): F. S. HaggartNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium reginae, not of this specimenCypripedium reginae Walter1896J. R. WatsonGeauga
Specimen of Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1896Edo N. ClaassenThompson Ledges
A photograph of the species Stachys cordata, not of this specimenStachys cordata Riddell1896Guttenberg, G.Burton
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1897Ray DensmoreLeroy
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Ray DensmoreLeroy, Grand River, swamp

All 1,183 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Aquilla: 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Best Sand CorporationStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Best Strip QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Hambden QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Geauga 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
Center Road (historical)1.7 miles15
East Bass Lake1.8 miles15
Hambden2.2 miles15
Terrace Glenn Estates2.2 miles15
West Bass Lake2.6 miles15
Claridon2.7 miles15
Chardon2.9 miles15
Clarks3.2 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AquillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2140346The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064337. 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.