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

Five Corners, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44201. The Survey maps it on the Atwater quadrangle.

Five Corners within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Five Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Five Corners, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1885 county history

19,838 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Randolph Township covers fikst two settlers, bela hubbard and salmon ward, the tide flows on, ward's four trips, oliver dickinson, first deaths, births and marriages.

Read the chapter on Randolph Township - 19,838 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 218 shown

Museums hold 218 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Corners between 1880 and 1975: 174 Animalia, 38 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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 Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 1854Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 18541928not recordedCongress Lake Outlet, SW of Kent, North America
Specimen of Lactuca serriola var. serriolaLactuca serriola var. serriola1963Bruyne P deRavenna (Ohio).
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Pyganodon cataracta, not of this specimenPyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown, Congress Lake Outlet and Cuyahoga River(pond to)
A photograph of the species Sagittunio nasutus, not of this specimenSagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Gomphus exilis, not of this specimenGomphus exilis Selys, 18541900E. Williamson[Not Stated]

All 218 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
Atwater1.7 miles18
Atwater Center2.5 miles18
Countrywide Estates2.7 miles18
Randolph2.9 miles18
Industry3.7 miles18
Saint Joseph5.5 miles11
New Milford5.7 miles18
Rootstown5.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062473. 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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