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

Axtel, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vermilion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44089. The Survey maps it on the Kipton quadrangle.

Axtel within Erie County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Axtel, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Axtel, surveyed 1903

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 938 shown

Museums hold 938 specimens collected within 10 miles of Axtel between 1874 and 1975: 687 Plantae, 159 Animalia, 91 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. M. Evans, A.M. Evans 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 Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1892Moseley, E.L.Shinrock
A photograph of the species Catharus fuscescens, not of this specimenCatharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817)1892C. TuttleBerlin Heights
A photograph of the species Salix discolor, not of this specimenSalix discolor Muhl.1892Moseley, E.L.Florence
A photograph of the species Huperzia lucidula, not of this specimenHuperzia lucidula (Michx.) Trevis.1893Moseley, E.L.Vermilion, Furnace Woods
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1894C. RutterVermillion River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1894Moseley, E.L.Florence
A photograph of the species Aster macrophyllus, not of this specimenAster macrophyllus L.1894Moseley, E.L.Florence Twp
A photograph of the species Circaea alpina, not of this specimenCircaea alpina subsp. alpina1894Moseley, E.L.Florence
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.1896Watson, J.R.North Ohio
Aristolochia serpentaria L.1896Simms, C.Berlin
Carex digitalis Willd.1896Moseley, E.L.Berlin Heights

All 938 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Axtel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
Cleveland QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms nearby

1 since 2025

The National Weather Service names Axtel in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Flash FloodAxtel-OH-60 flooded north of Mason Road south of Vermilion. Radar estimated 2 to 2.5 inches of rainfall in about one hour, which equates to a roughly 50 year recurrence interval.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Birmingham2.7 miles12
Portland Court3.5 miles12
Bluebird Beach3.5 miles12
Joppa3.5 miles14
Orchard Beach3.6 miles12
Volunteer Bay3.6 miles12
Vermilion3.7 miles14
Ashmont (historical)4.1 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.

Wikipedia article on AxtelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48837744The 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 1064367. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.