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Berlin, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Florence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43518. The Survey maps it on the Edon quadrangle.

Berlin within Williams County

Then and now

1940 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 50 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, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Berlin, surveyed 1940

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 1905 county history

4,993 words on this township

The county history of 1905 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Florence Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Florence Township - 4,993 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 343 shown

Museums hold 343 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berlin between 1895 and 1970: 340 Animalia, 2 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Barnes, T. N., Bauer, L. 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 unnamed1897F. L. StevensColumbia.
Specimen of Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854Gomphus exilis Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek near Nettle Lake
Specimen of Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854Gomphus lividus Selys, 18541946H. PriceNettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake
A photograph of the species Aspidium Sw., not of this specimenAspidium Sw.1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyFlorence
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581926Collector(s): unknownNo specific locality recorded
A photograph of the species Sturnus vulgaris, not of this specimenSturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 17581927Price, H. (Homer)Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Chaenobryttus gulosus, not of this specimenChaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma microperca, not of this specimenEtheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 18881929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanNettle Lake, northern northwest township

All 343 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
Columbia2.4 miles16
Cooney3.3 miles14
Edon3.7 miles14
Edon Home Court3.9 miles14
Ainger4.3 miles14
Nettle Lake5.1 miles14
Northwest5.8 miles14
Blakeslee6.0 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.

Wikipedia article on BerlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4892356The 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 1064419. 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.