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

Bennetts Corners, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Strongsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44136. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Bennetts Corners within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bennetts Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bennetts Corners, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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.

In the 1870 county history

6,580 words on this township

The county history of 1870 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Strongsville City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Strongsville City - 6,580 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 436 shown

Museums hold 436 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bennetts Corners between 1891 and 1974: 399 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Woolman, Adams J. M. R. 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 Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
Specimen of Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) MurrillIrpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill1895F. D. KelseyBerea.
A photograph of the species Pteridium aquilinum, not of this specimenPteridium aquilinum subsp. latiusculum (Desv.) Hultén ex R.T.Clausen1891George B. AshcroftOhio, dry hills near Berea
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River
A photograph of the species Lithobates palustris, not of this specimenLithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis Rafinesque, not of this specimenNotropis Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ceanothus herbaceus, not of this specimenCeanothus herbaceus Raf.1895J. R. WatsonIndependence

All 436 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
Waterford Crossing3.7 miles23
Strongsville3.8 miles23
North Royalton4.1 miles16
Binola4.8 miles23
Vigil4.9 miles23
Westwood Farms5.2 miles23
Broadview Heights5.9 miles16
Middleburg Heights6.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064413. 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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