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

Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44215. It stands on McCabe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westfield Center quadrangle.

Chippewa Lake Park within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chippewa Lake Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chippewa Lake Park, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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 1861 county history

715 words on this township

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lafayette Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lafayette Township - 715 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 303 shown

Museums hold 303 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chippewa Lake Park between 1884 and 1975: 284 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05], B Zahuranec & party 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 Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Aquilegia canadensis L.Aquilegia canadensis L.1897Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05][label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
A photograph of the species Plantago cordata, not of this specimenPlantago cordata Lam.1891F. E. LloydSelsville, north of Columbus
A photograph of the species Vicia cracca, not of this specimenVicia cracca L.1895Selby, A.D.Lodi
A photograph of the species Culicoides guttipennis, not of this specimenCulicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)1897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Specimen of Hinea Townsend, 1916Hinea Townsend, 19161897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Aplectrum hyemale, not of this specimenAplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.1898Illegible collector nameMedina

All 303 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chippewa Lake Park: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Ramsier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ramsier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Medina 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
Gloria Glens Park0.4 miles13
Chippewa Lake0.5 miles13
Chippewa-on-the-Lake0.5 miles13
Briarwood Beach0.9 miles13
Westfield Center3.2 miles13
Lafayette3.2 miles13
Seville4.1 miles15
Poe4.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039079. 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.