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

Bloody Corners, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Edinburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44266. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle.

Bloody Corners within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bloody Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bloody Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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 1885 county history

15,190 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Edinburg Township covers early settlement, abbott and chapman, othek pioneers, eial mc- arthur and r. m. hart, some noted names, organization and officers.

Read the chapter on Edinburg Township - 15,190 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 342 shown

Museums hold 342 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloody Corners between 1880 and 1975: 286 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, Allen, E. J. 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 Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1924Webb, Roscoe J.Alford's Glen
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Collector(s): S. N. DentonWindham
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Pyganodon cataracta, not of this specimenPyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown, Congress Lake Outlet and Cuyahoga River(pond to)
A photograph of the species Sagittunio nasutus, not of this specimenSagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh

All 342 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bloody Corners: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Charlestown Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage 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
East Davis (historical)1.5 miles13
Edinburg1.8 miles18
Countryside Estates3.1 miles15
Charlestown3.4 miles15
Maple Del Manor3.9 miles15
Palmyra3.9 miles14
Augerburg4.0 miles15
Yale4.0 miles14

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 Q122548707The 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 1062402. 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.