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Avery Terrace, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Painesville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44077. It stands on Red Creek. The Survey maps it on the Painesville quadrangle.

Avery Terrace within Lake County

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 Avery Terrace, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Avery Terrace, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Avery Terrace between 2002 and 2002, burning about 0 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,305 shown

Museums hold 1,305 specimens collected within 10 miles of Avery Terrace between 1864 and 1975: 1,043 Animalia, 143 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1885Werner, WM.C.near Painesville
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1885Werner, Wm. C.Painesville
Specimen of Periploca graeca L.Periploca graeca L.1886Werner, WM.C.Near Painesville
A photograph of the species Leucodon brachypus, not of this specimenLeucodon brachypus Brid.1864E. J. Ferris
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1864E. J. FerrisPainesville
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Didymodon tophaceus, not of this specimenDidymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Discelium nudum, not of this specimenDiscelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Orthotrichum stellatum, not of this specimenOrthotrichum stellatum Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 1,305 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Avery Terrace: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Halite, Salt, Calcium. 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
Morton Salt CoHalitePast ProducerHalite
Morton Salt Fairport MineSaltProducer
Republic Steel Lime PlantCalciumProducer
Mentor Sand and Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Painesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sidley's Painesville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Painesville0.5 miles15
Lusard Place0.9 miles15
West Walnut Estates1.5 miles16
Orchard Grove1.8 miles16
Golfway Pines2.0 miles12
Grand River2.1 miles16
Fairport Harbor2.1 miles6
Shoreland2.4 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122597925The 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 1085149. 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.