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

Columbus Park, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44870. The Survey maps it on the Sandusky quadrangle.

Columbus Park within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Columbus Park, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Columbus Park, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1916 county history

2,831 words on this township

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perkins Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perkins Township - 2,831 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,045 shown

Museums hold 3,045 specimens collected within 10 miles of Columbus Park between 1860 and 1975: 1,693 Animalia, 1,081 Plantae, 238 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. F. Satterthwait 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 Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1898United States Fish CommissionSandusky Bay
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1898United States Fish Commission & W. KendallSandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
Specimen of Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & RavazLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1899F.L. Scribner
A photograph of the species Perca Linnaeus, not of this specimenPerca Linnaeus, 17581860Smithsonian InstitutionSandusky
A photograph of the species Vermivora chrysoptera, not of this specimenVermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)1868No Person (Birds)Taylor
A photograph of the species Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis, not of this specimenMacropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)1881D. S. Young
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Artemisia caudata, not of this specimenArtemisia caudata Michx.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Graminopassalora graminis, not of this specimenGraminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous1886William Trelease; A. CommonsMadison
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point

All 3,045 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Columbus Park: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Wagner QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Erie Materials Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Febus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Soldiers Home QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Erie County

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Columbus Park in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 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
August 2012HailColumbus Park$15,000Trained spotter reported 1 to 2 inch diameter hail at Cedar Point.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindColumbus Park-Trees downed along Cedar Point Drive.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindColumbus Park-Several trees downed at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky.
July 2008HailColumbus Park-Penny to nickel size hail was observed at Cedar Point.

Every storm recorded in Erie 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
Southgate Acres0.9 miles16
Lincolnshire1.1 miles16
Wilmer1.2 miles16
Bogart1.3 miles16
Ranch Wood2.0 miles16
Fairview Lanes2.1 miles16
Holiday Estates2.8 miles16
MacArthur Park3.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049954. 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.