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

Berlin Heights Station, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44814. The Survey maps it on the Berlin Heights quadrangle.

Berlin Heights Station 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 Berlin Heights Station, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Berlin Heights Station, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1916 county history

6,812 words on this township

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Berlin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Berlin Township - 6,812 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,556 shown

Museums hold 1,556 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berlin Heights Station between 1874 and 1975: 798 Plantae, 639 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, 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
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1900Grover, F.O."Dry sandy hillside, shaded
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 Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis, not of this specimenMacropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)1881D. S. Young
A photograph of the species Graminopassalora graminis, not of this specimenGraminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous1886William Trelease; A. CommonsMadison
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1886Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons(a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del.
A photograph of the species Athyrium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenAthyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.1888Steele, E.S.Milan.
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
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.1896Watson, J.R.North Ohio
Aristolochia serpentaria L.1896Simms, C.Berlin
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1896Moseley, E.L.Milan
Carex digitalis Willd.1896Moseley, E.L.Berlin Heights

All 1,556 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Berlin Heights Station: 7 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Huron Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Harris Brothers Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Harris Brothers Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Delhi PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Horon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Huron PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mortensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shinrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shinrock Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Ceylon1.3 miles14
Shinrock1.5 miles13
Colonial Villa1.9 miles12
Berlin Heights1.9 miles14
Ogontz1.9 miles14
Oberlin Beach2.2 miles14
Ruggles Beach2.2 miles12
Mitiwanga2.7 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 Q122551966The 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 1064422. 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.