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

Fairview Lanes, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Perkins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44870. It stands on Plum Brook. The Survey maps it on the Sandusky quadrangle. 1,015 people lived here at the 2000 count. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Fairview Lanes within Erie 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 Fairview Lanes, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fairview Lanes, surveyed 1904

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 1916 county history

2,831 words on this township

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perkins Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perkins Township - 2,831 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,319 shown

Museums hold 3,319 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fairview Lanes between 1860 and 1975: 1,766 Animalia, 1,239 Plantae, 280 Fungi, 27 Chromista, 6 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. F. Satterthwait 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 Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1898United States Fish CommissionSandusky Bay
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1898United States Fish Commission & W. KendallSandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
Specimen of Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & RavazLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1899F.L. Scribner
A photograph of the species Perca Linnaeus, not of this specimenPerca Linnaeus, 17581860Smithsonian InstitutionSandusky
A photograph of the species Vermivora chrysoptera, not of this specimenVermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)1868No Person (Birds)Taylor
A photograph of the species Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis, not of this specimenMacropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)1881D. S. Young
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Artemisia caudata, not of this specimenArtemisia caudata Michx.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Graminopassalora graminis, not of this specimenGraminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous1886William Trelease; A. CommonsMadison
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point

All 3,319 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fairview Lanes: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Wagner QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Erie Materials Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Febus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Huron PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Soldiers Home QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Ranch Wood1.3 miles16
Lincolnshire2.0 miles16
Columbus Park2.1 miles16
Bogart2.1 miles16
Southgate Acres2.3 miles16
Holiday Estates2.9 miles16
Wilmer3.0 miles16
Sandusky3.2 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Fairview LanesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2390469The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061264. 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.