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

East Norwalk, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Norwalk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44857. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle.

East Norwalk within Huron 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 East Norwalk, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Norwalk, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1896 county history

23,684 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Norwalk Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Norwalk Township - 23,684 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 802 shown

Museums hold 802 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Norwalk between 1887 and 1975: 410 Plantae, 329 Animalia, 60 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, Baumgartner, L. 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 Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.GrayDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1887Leonard, F.E."Rich woods, bluff of Vermillion River at Beecher's.
Specimen of Rumex verticillatus L.Rumex verticillatus L.1896Stair, L. D.
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1898[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedClarksfield, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1893Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyMilan, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedVermillion River, Clarksfield, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavipes, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1893Hall W. B.Wakeman
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedMonroeville, Huron River

All 802 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Norwalk: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Riley Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Riley Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Huron County

Storms nearby

2 since 2011

The National Weather Service names East Norwalk in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Norwalk-Numerous tree limbs were blown down and trees uprooted along State Route 61.
May 2011HailEast Norwalk-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Huron 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
Key Estates3.0 miles13
Norwalk3.1 miles12
Collins4.3 miles14
East Townsend4.4 miles10
West Hartland4.9 miles12
Hartland Station5.9 miles10
Monroeville7.0 miles12
Hartland7.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040011. 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.