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Highland Beach, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saybrook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44004. It stands on Strong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashtabula North quadrangle.

Highland Beach within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Highland Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Highland Beach, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Highland Beach between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15697

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 780 shown

Museums hold 780 specimens collected within 10 miles of Highland Beach between 1872 and 1975: 620 Animalia, 136 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 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
Specimen of Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Conneaut Creek
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
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 Chelydra serpentina, not of this specimenChelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedKINGSVILLE, CONNEAUT CREEK
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571893not recordedKingsville, Conneaut Creek

All 780 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Highland Beach: 4 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Iron, Titanium, Pigment. 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
Ashtabula #1 & #2 Plants TiTitanium, PigmentPlant1967
Ashtabula Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant1968
Therm-X CoAluminumUnknown
Union CarbideIronProducer
Dreslinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dreslinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pinney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Pinney Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working 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
Harbor0.5 miles15
Elks View0.6 miles15
Willow Arms1.2 miles15
Mareddy Estates1.4 miles15
East Ashtabula1.7 miles15
Avondale2.4 miles15
Ashtabula2.6 miles14
Century Bay2.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771127. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.