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

Cottage Grove, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Coventry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44319. It stands on Feeder Race River. The Survey maps it on the Canal Fulton quadrangle.

Cottage Grove within Summit County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cottage Grove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cottage Grove, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1908 county history

1,608 words on this township

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Coventry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Coventry Township - 1,608 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 697 shown

Museums hold 697 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cottage Grove between 1867 and 1975: 593 Animalia, 59 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. W. Cusick, 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 Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianumBotrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum1888Wright, A.A.Tallmadge.
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Asclepias verticillata L.Asclepias verticillata L.1889not recordedAkron
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1867Collector(s): James Lee PetersAkron
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1880F. O. PayneAkron
A photograph of the species Geum aleppicum, not of this specimenGeum aleppicum Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Geum canadense, not of this specimenGeum canadense Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1888E.L. Sturtevant II
A photograph of the species Lonicera dioica, not of this specimenLonicera dioica L.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Penstemon hirsutus, not of this specimenPenstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Agrimonia gryposepala, not of this specimenAgrimonia gryposepala Wallr.1889ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Carex pensylvanica, not of this specimenCarex pensylvanica Lam.1889Foltz, K.O.Akron

All 697 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Cottage Grove: 7 producers, 5 past producers, 3 plants. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal, Marble, Dimension, Cement Rock. 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
Barberton Cement PlantMarble, Dimension, Cement RockProducer
Carbon Limestone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, CoalProducer
Ppg Indus Brine Wells PlantSaltProducer
Barberton Sand Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Barberton Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Barberton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Greensburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammond Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Hammond Brothers Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Knight PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Robins Trace0.5 miles18
Infant of Prague Villa0.6 miles18
Hillcrest Highlands0.6 miles18
Turkeyfoot Heights0.9 miles18
Lakeview0.9 miles18
Merestead Farms1.1 miles18
Forestwood1.1 miles18
Ellis Estates1.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048634. 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.