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

Beech Park, Ohio

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Avon Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 44012. The Survey maps it on the Avon OE N quadrangle.

Beech Park within Lorain County

Then and now

1956 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beech Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Beech Park, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 1,287 shown

Museums hold 1,287 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beech Park between 1853 and 1975: 1,001 Animalia, 256 Fungi, 22 Plantae, 4 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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 Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
Specimen of Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) MurrillGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1899A. A. WrightOberlin.
Specimen of Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1899A. E. RickseckerN. of Oberlin
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1853Baird, Spencer FullertonBlack River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191853S. BairdBlack River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard1894Kelsey, F.D.Lorain County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aulacomnium palustre, not of this specimenAulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.1894F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,287 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
Avon Lake1.0 miles7
Avon Point1.7 miles7
Folger (historical)2.3 miles16
Crandall3.1 miles16
Sheffield Lake3.1 miles16
Avon Center3.4 miles16
Lake Breeze3.7 miles16
Avon3.7 miles16

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 Q49474160The 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 1052667. 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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