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

Crawford Corners, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrisville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44287. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lodi quadrangle.

Crawford Corners within Medina 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 Crawford Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Crawford Corners, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1861 county history

4,413 words on this township

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Harrisville Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Harrisville Township - 4,413 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 174 shown

Museums hold 174 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crawford Corners between 1888 and 1975: 166 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BJ Zahuranec & party, Bosler, Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.	1975	Jones, G.T.	In moist deciduous woods near Spencer Lake, Spencer Twp.
Lilium canadense L.	1888	E. Barrick	Chatham
Plantago cordata Lam.	1891	F. E. Lloyd	Selsville, north of Columbus
Vicia cracca L.	1895	Selby, A.D.	Lodi
Galba Schrank, 1803	1906	Collector(s): Joel Asaph Allen	Chippewa Lake
Carex tribuloides Wahlenb.	1911	Hopkins, L.S.	Chippewa Lake
Urocystis cepulae Frost	1926	Stover W. G.	Lodi
Helminthosporium Link, 1809	1928	Drechsler Charles	Lodi
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Fork East Branch Black River, within Harrisville township, near Lodi, Harrisville township
Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Fork East Branch Black River, within Harrisville township, near Lodi, Harrisville township
Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Fork East Branch Black River, within Harrisville township, near Lodi, Harrisville township
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	West Fork East Branch Black River, within Harrisville township, near Lodi, Harrisville township

All 174 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crawford Corners: 7 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
76 Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Baker Sand, Incorporated Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Jones Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lodi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Quillian Bros. Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Quillian Bros. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Ramsier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Seville Sand and Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Medina 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Esselburn	1.7 miles	12
Garden Isle	1.9 miles	12
Lodi	2.8 miles	12
Evergreen Estates	3.1 miles	12
Pine Villas	3.3 miles	12
Homerville	4.0 miles	12
Pawnee	4.1 miles	12
Homer	4.5 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Crawford Corners	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133682	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056847. 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.