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

Driftwood, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44041. It stands on Arcola Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Driftwood within Lake County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Driftwood, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Driftwood, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 208 shown

Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Driftwood between 1885 and 1975: 160 Animalia, 30 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick; R.H.Guckert, Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M. 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 Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Peronospora corydalis, not of this specimenPeronospora corydalis de Bary1885Collector unspecifiedMadison
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acroneuria internata, not of this specimenAcroneuria internata (Walker, 1852)1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Neoperla clymene, not of this specimenNeoperla clymene (Newman, 1839)1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus monticola Todd, 19401897Ray DensmorePerry
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Ray DensmorePerry
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898E.A. DoolittlePerry
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081898Densmore, R.Perry
Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941898Ray DensmorePerry, By side of Grand River
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Densmore, R.Perry

All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Madison Dock (historical)0.4 miles12
Madison Beach2.0 miles12
Madison-on-the-Lake2.5 miles12
North Madison4.3 miles12
Redbird4.4 miles12
James Place4.4 miles12
Genung Corners5.0 miles12
Unionville5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056262. 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.

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