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

Folger, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Avon Lake City. It lies in ZIP code area 44012. It stands on North Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Folger within Lorain County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Folger (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Folger (historical), surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,377 shown

Museums hold 1,377 specimens collected within 10 miles of Folger (historical) between 1853 and 1975: 1,066 Animalia, 267 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill	1899	A. A. Wright	Oberlin.
Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	N. of Oberlin
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard	1894	Kelsey, F.D.	Lorain County, Ohio
Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey
Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,377 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Avon Center	1.3 miles	16
Avon Lake	1.9 miles	7
Avon	2.0 miles	16
Trinity (historical)	2.3 miles	16
Beech Park	2.3 miles	7
Avon Point	2.4 miles	7
Crandall	3.1 miles	16
Sheffield Lake	4.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058933. 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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