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

Business Corner, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Monclova Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43542. The Survey maps it on the Maumee quadrangle.

Business Corner within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Business Corner, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Business Corner, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

8 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Business Corner between 2002 and 2017, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 June 2002Smokingunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 April 2017Debris and open burning22 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8327
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7405
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7413
8 March 2016Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3646
30 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources663
18 November 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2647
8 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1962

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,702 shown

Museums hold 1,702 specimens collected within 10 miles of Business Corner between 1875 and 1975: 1,583 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. Lose, A.E. Daugherty 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 Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1920L. L. RedickPerrysburg
Specimen of Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1924L. L. RedickPerrysburg
Specimen of Carex vulpinoidea Michx.Carex vulpinoidea Michx.1925J. E. Benedict
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1875LangdonIndian Hill, Kane County
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepisosteus osseus, not of this specimenLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893P. KirschMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio

All 1,702 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 13 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Business Corner: 9 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General, 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
Maumee PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Maumee QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Toledo House of Correction QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Toledo House of Correction QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Angola Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Angola Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Foster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Foster PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Reed Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Strawberry Acres PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lucas 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
Monclova1.1 miles17
Homewood2.1 miles17
Spring Valley2.2 miles17
Sandburr Corners2.5 miles17
Crissey2.8 miles15
Presque Isle (historical)2.9 miles17
Chateau Estates3.6 miles15
Holland3.6 miles17

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 Q122545482The 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 1056231. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.