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

Berlinville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berlin Township. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle.

Berlinville within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Berlinville, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Berlinville, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 county-history sources

6,812 words on this township

A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Berlin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Berlin Township has three villages within its boundaries. Berlinville, on the state road, was at one time a busy little place, but when stage coaches were superseded by railroads it fell into the background and remained the same little village, but without the life and bustle of the early days.

Passage source: A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Berlin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,456 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,456 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berlinville between 1874 and 1975: 805 Plantae, 549 Animalia, 101 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A.M. Starr 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1900	Grover, F.O.	"Dry sandy hillside, shaded
Carduus nutans L.	1874	Jones, G.T.	Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel	1886	Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons	(a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del.
Athyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.	1888	Steele, E.S.	Milan.
Carex gracillima Schwein.	1892	Moseley, E.L.	Shinrock
Catharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817)	1892	C. Tuttle	Berlin Heights
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.	1896	Watson, J.R.	North Ohio
Aristolochia serpentaria L.	1896	Simms, C.	Berlin
Carex bromoides Willd.	1896	Moseley, E.L.	Milan
Carex digitalis Willd.	1896	Moseley, E.L.	Berlin Heights

All 1,456 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Berlinville: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Harris Brothers Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Harris Brothers Sandstone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bauer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Delhi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mortensen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Reer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shinrock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Shinrock Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weilnau Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Berlin Heights	1.9 miles	14
Shinrock	3.0 miles	13
Berlin Heights Station	3.6 miles	14
Ogontz	4.1 miles	14
North Milan	4.8 miles	13
Milan	4.8 miles	13
Ceylon	4.9 miles	14
Colonial Villa	5.5 miles	12

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 Q122554672

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 1056222. 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.