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

Five Points, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44805. The Survey maps it on the Pavonia quadrangle.

Five Points within Ashland County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 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 Points, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Five Points, surveyed 1908

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 266 shown

Museums hold 266 specimens collected within 10 miles of Five Points between 1846 and 1973: 249 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, B Zahuranec & party, B.H., H.P., M.A. & R. Rhoades 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 Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 19161846P. HarwoodAshland
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1902not recordedNo Further Locality Data
Valsa Fr.1913Stevens N. E.Windsor
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631927not recorded
Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)1927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
Trionyx spiniferus Lesueur, 18271927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township

All 266 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bolin and Son Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashland 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
Paradise Hill3.1 miles14
Mifflin3.7 miles15
Mifflin Cottage Area4.5 miles15
South Peninsula Cottage Area5.0 miles15
Ashland5.1 miles15
Yacht Point Cottage Area5.7 miles13
Charles Mill6.3 miles13
Widowville6.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061070. 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.