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

Colebrook, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Colebrook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44076. The Survey maps it on the Orwell quadrangle.

Colebrook within Ashtabula 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 Colebrook, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Colebrook, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Freewill Baptist Church, Colebrook, Ashtabula County, OH
Freewill Baptist Church, Colebrook, Ashtabula County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 365 shown

Museums hold 365 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colebrook between 1890 and 1975: 316 Animalia, 38 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Acker, G. G. & Class, Bogue, E. 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 Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1891Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Calicium quercinum Pers.Calicium quercinum Pers.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Geum rivale, not of this specimenGeum rivale L.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Sceptridium dissectum, not of this specimenSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1890E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cladonia pyxidata, not of this specimenCladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.1891Bogue, E.E.Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144
A photograph of the species Lecanora caesiorubella, not of this specimenLecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella1891E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Physcia stellaris, not of this specimenPhyscia stellaris (L.) Nyl.1891Bogue, E. E.Orwell
Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1892E. E. BogueOrwell

All 365 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Colebrook in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2005Thunderstorm WindColebrook$8,000Numerous trees and utility poles were reported down.
May 1998HailColebrook-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodColebrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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 New Lyme3.3 miles13
Dodgeville3.9 miles13
East Orwell4.3 miles13
Asbury Park4.7 miles13
New Lyme4.9 miles13
Wayne5.1 miles17
Orwell5.6 miles13
New Lyme Station5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056822. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.