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

Collins, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Townsend Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44826. The Survey maps it on the Berlin Heights quadrangle.

Collins within Huron County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Collins, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Collins, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 county-history sources

2,113 words on this township

History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Townsend Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

There are two villages in the township, of nearly equal size, called Townsend center and Collins, the latter situated on the railroad, half a mile north of the center. At Townsend center there are two churches, two stores, one millinery shop, one blacksmith shop, one school house, one sawmill, one bee-house, one violin manufacturer and one architect and builder.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

"The Western Reserve Union Institute," was established at Collins, in 1855, chiefly through the efforts of W. S. Hyde. The institution derived its support from the tuition of its pupils, and was not incorporated. It had an existence until about the year 1870, when the building was purchased by the township, and has since been used as a district school.

Passage source: History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development, published 1909.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Townsend Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 725 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 725 specimens collected within 10 miles of Collins between 1887 and 1975: 413 Plantae, 242 Animalia, 66 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, Baumgartner, L. 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 Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.GrayDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1887Leonard, F.E."Rich woods, bluff of Vermillion River at Beecher's.
Specimen of Rumex verticillatus L.Rumex verticillatus L.1896Stair, L. D.
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1898[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Cephalanthus occidentalis, not of this specimenCephalanthus occidentalis L.1888Shafer, J.A.W of Brighton near Cleveland
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedClarksfield, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1893Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyMilan, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanOhio, Wakeman, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavipes, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1893Hall W. B.Wakeman
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1893A. WoolmanVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis chrysocephalus, not of this specimenNotropis chrysocephalus (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Wakeman, Vermillion River

All 725 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Collins: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collins in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCollins$20,000There was significant roof damage to a home in Collins.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Collins$10,000A weak tornado touched down about one mile southeast of Collins in Townsend Township. The tornado was only on the ground for a few hundred yards before lifting. This F0 tornado knocked down a few trees and caused some crop damage. No buildings were damaged. A moving recreational vehicle was pushed off the road but little damage and no injuries occurred.
June 2002HailCollins$5,000Dime size hail was observed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCollins$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
May 2007HailCollins-Nickel size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
East Townsend0.7 miles10
Hartland Station3.3 miles10
East Norwalk4.3 miles13
West Hartland4.6 miles12
Wakeman4.9 miles14
Hartland5.7 miles10
West Clarksfield5.8 miles10
Clarksfield6.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039258. 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.

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.