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

Enterprise, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brecksville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44141. The Survey maps it on the Broadview Heights quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Enterprise within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Enterprise (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Enterprise (historical), surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1870 county history

4,612 words on this township

The county history of 1870 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Brecksville City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Brecksville City - 4,612 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,013 shown

Museums hold 1,013 specimens collected within 10 miles of Enterprise (historical) between 1876 and 1974: 987 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 incertae sedis. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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 Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Apocynum androsaemifolium L.Apocynum androsaemifolium L.1896not recordedBinola
Specimen of Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.GrayOsmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.Gray1897Winkler, H.J.Cleveland. Moist woods.
A photograph of the species Dendroica caerulescens, not of this specimenDendroica caerulescens caerulescens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica fusca, not of this specimenDendroica fusca (Statius Müller, 1776)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica striata, not of this specimenDendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Seiurus aurocapilla, not of this specimenSeiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1877A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081877A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyohoga River, Independence, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893not recordedCuyahoga River, Independence, Ohio

All 1,013 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
Broadview Heights1.9 miles16
Brecksville2.6 miles16
North Royalton3.6 miles16
Walling Corners3.8 miles16
Jaite4.7 miles15
Pleasant Valley4.8 miles16
Independence5.4 miles16
Alexander5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068420. 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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