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

Crandall, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sheffield Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44054. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle.

Crandall within Lorain 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 Crandall, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Crandall, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,410 shown

Museums hold 1,410 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crandall between 1853 and 1975: 1,081 Animalia, 275 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 6 Unrecorded, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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 Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
Specimen of Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) MurrillGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1899A. A. WrightOberlin.
Specimen of Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1899A. E. RickseckerN. of Oberlin
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1853Baird, Spencer FullertonBlack River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191853S. BairdBlack River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard1894Kelsey, F.D.Lorain County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aulacomnium palustre, not of this specimenAulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.1894F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,410 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 Crandall: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Lorain Plant-National GypsumGypsum-AnhydritePlant
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lorain Plant - Marathon SteelIronProducer
Lorain Plant - U.S. SteelIronProducer

Every working recorded in Lorain 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
Sheffield Lake2.0 miles16
Avon2.4 miles16
Lake Breeze2.5 miles16
Avon Center3.0 miles16
Beech Park3.1 miles7
Folger (historical)3.1 miles16
Sheffield3.3 miles16
South Lorain3.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058952. 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.