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

Clarks, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44077. It stands on The Knob. The Survey maps it on the Painesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clarks within Lake 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 Clarks (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Clarks (historical), surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1,299 shown

Museums hold 1,299 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clarks (historical) between 1864 and 1975: 1,026 Animalia, 154 Plantae, 100 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 3 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 1,299 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 Clarks (historical): 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
Mentor Sand and Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Concord1.9 miles15
Little Mountain2.2 miles16
Pease Mill (historical)3.3 miles15
Kirtland Hills4.0 miles13
Five Points4.3 miles15
West Walnut Estates4.4 miles16
Orchard Grove4.4 miles16
Lusard Place4.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067429. 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.