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

Harpersfield, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harpersfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44041. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle.

Harpersfield within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harpersfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Harpersfield, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 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 824 shown

Museums hold 824 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harpersfield between 1891 and 1975: 713 Animalia, 94 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Geranium pusillum, not of this specimenGeranium pusillum L.1893GoodrichAshtabula Co.
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893not recordedGeneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepisosteus osseus, not of this specimenLepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Ohio

All 824 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Harpersfield in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 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 2016Thunderstorm WindHarpersfield$35,000Thunderstorm down burst winds tore the roof off of a barn at a vineyard located along State Route 307 south of Geneva.

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Holdlen Hills1.7 miles17
Cork2.0 miles12
Mechanicsville2.8 miles17
Geneva3.1 miles17
Elmwood3.6 miles17
Cold Springs4.7 miles12
Austinburg5.0 miles14
Trumbull5.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064798. 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.