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Buena Vista Beach, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44081. The Survey maps it on the Perry quadrangle.

Buena Vista Beach within Lake County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Buena Vista Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Buena Vista Beach, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 850 shown

Museums hold 850 specimens collected within 10 miles of Buena Vista Beach between 1864 and 1975: 574 Animalia, 161 Plantae, 97 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1885Werner, WM.C.near Painesville
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1885Werner, Wm. C.Painesville
Specimen of Periploca graeca L.Periploca graeca L.1886Werner, WM.C.Near Painesville
A photograph of the species Leucodon brachypus, not of this specimenLeucodon brachypus Brid.1864E. J. Ferris
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1864E. J. FerrisPainesville
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Didymodon tophaceus, not of this specimenDidymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Discelium nudum, not of this specimenDiscelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Orthotrichum stellatum, not of this specimenOrthotrichum stellatum Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 850 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
Camp Roosevelt2.4 miles12
North Perry2.5 miles12
Redbird2.9 miles12
Perry3.5 miles12
James Place3.6 miles12
North Madison4.2 miles12
Genung Corners4.4 miles12
Madison-on-the-Lake4.8 miles12

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 Q122550104The 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 1052932. 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.

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