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

Columbia Center, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44028. The Survey maps it on the West View quadrangle.

Columbia Center within Lorain County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Columbia Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Columbia Center, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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 551 shown

Museums hold 551 specimens collected within 10 miles of Columbia Center between 1888 and 1975: 509 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, BJ 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
A photograph of the species Osmunda claytoniana, not of this specimenOsmunda claytoniana L.1888McCormick, L.M.Black River.
A photograph of the species Carex virescens, not of this specimenCarex virescens Muhl. ex Willd.1892H. C. CowlesBlack River. East branch, Hart's Station.
A photograph of the species Cystopteris protrusa, not of this specimenCystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell1892Cowles, H.C.Elyria
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River
A photograph of the species Lithobates palustris, not of this specimenLithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Penthorum sedoides L.1897J. R. WatsonColumbia Station
Bombomima Enderlein, 19141923Fuller, A. B. (Arthur B.)North Olmsted, Cuyahoga Co., OH

All 551 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Columbia Hills Corners0.5 miles20
Columbia Station1.1 miles20
North Eaton2.9 miles20
Eaton Estates4.2 miles16
Eaton5.0 miles16
Fields5.4 miles20
Kingsleys Corners6.3 miles16
Shawville (historical)6.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056827. 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.

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