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.
Then and now
1940 to 1990The 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 sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000
- 1940 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Edon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Edon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Edon quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Edon quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the 1905 county history
4,993 words on this townshipThe 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 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | unnamed | 1897 | F. L. Stevens | Columbia. |
![]() | Gomphus exilis Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854 | 1946 | H. Price | Nettle Creek, at ripples near Nettle Lake |
![]() | Aspidium Sw. | 1895 | Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley | Florence |
![]() | Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758 | 1926 | Collector(s): unknown | No specific locality recorded |
![]() | Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 | 1927 | Price, H. (Homer) | Evansport, Williams, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Creek, at inlet to Nettle Lake in Northwest township, 4.7 mi S of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Erimyzon sucetta kennerlii (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Nettle Lake, Northwest township, ~5.4 mi SE of Camden, Northwest township |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman | Nettle 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Cooney | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Edon | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Edon Home Court | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ainger | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Nettle Lake | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Northwest | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Blakeslee | 6.0 miles | 13 |
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 Berlin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4892356 | The 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.

























