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

Breezewood, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in St. Marys Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45885. It stands on Barnes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marys quadrangle.

Breezewood within Auglaize County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Breezewood, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Breezewood, surveyed 1911

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 563 shown

Museums hold 563 specimens collected within 10 miles of Breezewood between 1800 and 1974: 466 Animalia, 96 Plantae, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Wetzstein, Albert Wetzstein, Anonymous collector s.n. "91" [1898-08-30] 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 Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1895Wetzstein, A.St. Marys, Ohio.
Specimen of Equisetum hyemale L.Equisetum hyemale L.1895Wetzstein, A.St. Marys.
Specimen of Adiantum capillus-veneris L.Adiantum capillus-veneris L.1896Wetzstein, A.St. mary's. Greenhouse
A photograph of the species Mentha aquatica, not of this specimenMentha aquatica L.1800Ballenstedt, B.Bremen: An der WÅmme in Oberneuland bei Bremen
A photograph of the species Geum urbanum, not of this specimenGeum urbanum L.1883BaßmannBremen: Vegesack, feuchtes, schattiges Gehîlz bei Holthorst, sehr selten
A photograph of the species Rubus idaeus, not of this specimenRubus idaeus L.1889MeyerholzBremen: auf Quellgrund, Torf u. Humus
A photograph of the species Stachys aspera, not of this specimenStachys aspera Michx.1889Wilhelm SchiblerOhio: St. Marys, borders of Canal.
A photograph of the species Lobelia dortmanna, not of this specimenLobelia dortmanna L.1892WendelkenBremen: Bremen-Lesum, Lesum
A photograph of the species Rubus condensatus, not of this specimenRubus condensatus P.J.Müll.1892Elmgoeth, Fr.Niedersachsen: Soltau in der Lüneburger Heide
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1893P. KirschSt. Marys
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893P. KirschSt. Marys River, St. Marys, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893P. KirschSt. Marys River, St. Marys, Ohio

All 563 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 Breezewood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Con-Ag, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Auglaize 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
South Shore Acres0.2 miles14
Harmons Landing0.5 miles14
Southmoor Shores1.1 miles14
Bulkhead1.8 miles14
Villa Nova2.7 miles14
Sandy Beach2.8 miles14
Paradise Court3.3 miles14
Saint Marys4.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700924. 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.