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

Forest Park, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43430. The Survey maps it on the Walbridge quadrangle.

Forest Park within Ottawa County

Then and now

1900 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Forest Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Forest Park, surveyed 1900

Compare 1900 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 871 shown

Museums hold 871 specimens collected within 10 miles of Forest Park between 1825 and 1975: 860 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Al Szuch, Albiet, P., Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Class 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
A photograph of the species Hygroamblystegium tenax, not of this specimenHygroamblystegium tenax (Hedw.) Jenn.1825T. DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Procambarus blandingii, not of this specimenProcambarus blandingii (Harlan, 1830)1893United States Fish CommissionPortage River, at Oak Harbor
A photograph of the species Elsinoe veneta, not of this specimenElsinoe veneta (Burkh.) Jenkins1896Selby A. S.Elmore
A photograph of the species Armillaria mellea, not of this specimenArmillaria mellea var. exannulata Peck1907Fink, B.Genoa
A photograph of the species Uniomerus tetralasmus, not of this specimenUniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831)1911not recordedJerusalem Township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1922Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Crane Creek, east of Curtice, ~1.2 mi NE of Williston, Allen township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum nigrum Rafinesque, 18201922Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Crane Creek, east of Curtice, ~1.2 mi NE of Williston, Allen township
A photograph of the species Bruchophagus Ashmead, not of this specimenBruchophagus Ashmead, 18881925W.V. Balduf
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum pullum (Agassiz, 1854)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1928TL HankinsonPortage River, at Elmore

All 871 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 Forest Park: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clay Center PlantStoneProducer
U.S. Gypsum Company Genoa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Genoa QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock QuarryCalciumPast ProducerCalcite
White Rock Quarry L.P.CalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Ottawa 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
Clay Center1.6 miles16
Genoa2.1 miles16
Martin2.4 miles16
Williston4.6 miles16
Elliston5.2 miles16
Middleton (historical)5.6 miles16
Trowbridge5.7 miles16
Sheldon (historical)5.8 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 Forest ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5469049The 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 1040569. 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.