Erlin, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1986

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.

• 1901 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Erlin between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Catalpa Grove
• Great Lakes Village
• Green Creek
• Muncie Hollow
• Ballville
• Booktown

Every fire recorded in Sandusky County

Museums hold 962 specimens collected within 10 miles of Erlin between 1865 and 1975: 881 Animalia, 62 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Adiantum pedatum L.	1880	Keeler, L.E.	Fremont.
	Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc.	1896	Day	Fremont
	Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829)	1914	Anson A. Hinkley	Sandusky River, Fremont, North America
	Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)	1865	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
	Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
	Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862	1881	not recorded	Sandusky, Ohio, USA
	Carex frankii Kunth	1889	H. C. Beardslee	Green Spring.
	Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott	1890	H. C. Beardslee Sr.	Green Springs
	Carex haleana Olney	1890	H. C. Beardslee Jr.	Green Spring
	Carex hyalinolepis Steud.	1890	Collector unknown	Green Spring.
	Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1890	Harry S. Day	Fremont
	Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)	1891	Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)	Sandusky, Ohio, USA

All 962 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Erlin in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

Every storm recorded in Sandusky County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048710. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.