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

Fields, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in North Ridgeville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44039. It stands on Butternut Ridge. The Survey maps it on the West View quadrangle.

Fields within Lorain County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fields, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fields, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 853 shown

Museums hold 853 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fields between 1853 and 1975: 710 Animalia, 81 Fungi, 56 Plantae, 6 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. Woolman, A.M. Evans 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 Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.1896F. D. KelseyBlack River, east of Oberlin.
Specimen of Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De ToniCyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni1899A. E. RickseckerLorain County.
Specimen of Frullania eboracensis GottscheFrullania eboracensis Gottsche1900Frederick O. Grover
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1853Baird, Spencer FullertonBlack River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191853S. BairdBlack River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard1894Kelsey, F.D.Lorain County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aulacomnium palustre, not of this specimenAulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.1894F. D. Kelsey
Mycosphaerellaceae1894Kelsey F. D.Lorain Co.
A photograph of the species Schizophyllum commune, not of this specimenSchizophyllum commune Fr.1894F. D. K.Chauce Creek
Uromyces hyperici (Schwein.) M.A.Curtis1894Dick W. M.Lorain Co.

All 853 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Fields in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFields-An automated sensor measured a 59 knot thunderstorm wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Lorain 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
Shawville (historical)1.2 miles16
North Ridgeville1.8 miles16
North Eaton3.9 miles20
Eaton4.0 miles16
Eaton Estates4.1 miles16
Columbia Station4.7 miles20
Laporte5.0 miles16
Columbia Center5.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064650. 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.