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

Erhart, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Litchfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44256. The Survey maps it on the Mallet Creek quadrangle.

Erhart within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Erhart, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Erhart, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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.

In the 1861 county history

1,321 words on this township

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Litchfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Litchfield Township - 1,321 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 335 shown

Museums hold 335 specimens collected within 10 miles of Erhart between 1884 and 1975: 293 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea, B Zahuranec & party 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 Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
A photograph of the species Aleurodiscus oakesii, not of this specimenAleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Lobaria amplissima, not of this specimenLobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell1894Francis D KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mnium stellare, not of this specimenMnium stellare Hedw.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mycosphaerella macularis, not of this specimenMycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) J.Schröt.1894Kelsey F. D.Penfield
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum ontariense, not of this specimenRhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris1894F. D. KelseyPenfield

All 335 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Erhart in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Erhart$50,000An EF0 tornado entered Medina County from Lorain County about 0.3 miles north of the intersection of Neff Road and Erhart Road. As the tornado continued moving southeastward, large hardwood tree branches were snapped at the intersection of Spieth Road and Lester Road along Mallet Creek. At a nearby farm on Lester Road, about 0.5 miles south of Spieth Road, a small outbuilding lost its roof panels. The EF0 tornado traveled farther southeastward and as it entered Medina, large hardwood tree branches were broken at the intersection of West Smith Road and South Huntington Street, while minor roof damage occurred at a plaza along the north side of Lafayette Road, between South Huntington Street and South Elmwood Street. The tornado dissipated at the intersection of Wadsworth Road and Smokerise Drive in Medina, where softwood trees were uprooted. No fatalities or injuries occurred.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindErhart$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindErhart-Large tree uprooted in Litchfield, just east of OH-83.
July 2008HailErhart-Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Medina 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
Lester2.3 miles14
Franks Corner2.8 miles14
Litchfield3.4 miles11
Mallet Creek3.4 miles14
Valley City3.5 miles14
Pliny (historical)3.9 miles14
Abbeyville4.6 miles14
Valley City Station4.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056278. 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.

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.