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

Edgewater Beach, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Licking Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43076. It stands on Bope Island. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Edgewater Beach within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Edgewater Beach, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Edgewater Beach, surveyed 1909

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Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Licking township, in the words of 1881.

1881, Licking Township

Abraham Lincoln

(31 BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth Presi- LA dent of the United States, was born in Hardin (1 County, Ky., February 12, 1809. About the year 1780, a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln left Virginia with his family and moved into the then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years after this emigration, and while still a young man, he was working one day in a field, when an Indian stealthily approached and killed him.

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Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,420 shown

Museums hold 1,420 specimens collected within 10 miles of Edgewater Beach between 1843 and 1975: 1,268 Animalia, 114 Fungi, 38 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Albertin, Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.	1922	E. B.	Newark
Puccinia asteris Duby	1922	E. Bartholomew
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1881	not recorded	Buckeye Lake, Licking, Ohio, USA
Ranunculus longirostris Godr.	1893	E. M. Wilcox	Licking Reservoir
Chara contraria Kütz.	1897	E. B. Williamson	Newark
Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819	1897	Williamson, E. B. & Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)	Buckeye Lake, Walnut township, ~1.1 mi W of Fairfield Beach, Walnut township
Perlesta ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 2012	1899	not recorded	Newark
Perlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)	1899	not recorded	Newark

All 1,420 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edgewater Beach: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Walters Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Walters Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Licking 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
Harbor Hills	1.5 miles	14
Jacksontown	2.4 miles	14
Atherton	2.8 miles	14
Amsterdam	2.8 miles	14
Buckeye Lake	3.3 miles	14
Moscow (historical)	3.9 miles	14
Linnville	4.2 miles	12
Fleatown	4.7 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048692. 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.