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

Bay View, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Riley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43464. It stands on Pickerel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vickery quadrangle.

Bay View within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bay View, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bay View, surveyed 1901

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 816 shown

Museums hold 816 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bay View between 1865 and 1975: 736 Animalia, 65 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Albiet, P. & Stone Lab Limnology Class, Anderson, J. (John) 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 Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.1896Kelsey; Mr. DayFremont.
Specimen of Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)1914Anson A. HinkleySandusky River, Fremont, North America
Specimen of Alternaria crassa (Sacc.) RandsAlternaria crassa (Sacc.) Rands1915L.R. JonesClyde
A photograph of the species Hydroprogne caspia, not of this specimenHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)1865Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry S. DayFremont
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus Gmelin, 17891893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Morone chrysops, not of this specimenMorone chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)1893not recordedSandusky River, Fremont
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Fremont, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1894C. RutterOhio, Sandusky River, Freemont
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1894not recordedSandusky River, mouth of

All 816 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Bayshore1.7 miles15
Sunset Harbor2.4 miles15
Upton3.0 miles13
Whites Landing3.2 miles15
Edgewater Estates3.5 miles15
Vickery3.7 miles15
Whitmore4.6 miles15
Wightmans Grove4.9 miles13

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 Q49345590The 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 1048489. 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.

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