Crystal Rock, Ohio

Crystal Rock fell from 176 to 138 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1986

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.

• 1901 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Bellevue quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Castalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Castalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Castalia quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000

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

Museums hold 3,290 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crystal Rock between 1860 and 1975: 1,792 Animalia, 1,206 Plantae, 255 Fungi, 30 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. F. Satterthwait, A. J. Eames 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1898	United States Fish Commission	Sandusky Bay
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1898	United States Fish Commission & W. Kendall	Sandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
	Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1899	not recorded	Lake Shore, Near East Harbor
	Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
	Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
	Apios tuberosa Moench	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
	Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	1885	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
	Artemisia caudata Michx.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
	Panicum virgatum L.	1886	Wilkinson, E.	Cedar Point
	Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758	1886	Smithsonian Institution
	Microsphaera ravenelii Berk.	1887	F. S. Earle	Catawba Island
	Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze	1896	J. C. Bogue	Gypsum

All 3,290 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Rock: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Every working recorded in Erie County

The National Weather Service names Crystal Rock in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Erie County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039521. 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.