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

Huntington, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44090. The Survey maps it on the Sullivan quadrangle.

Huntington within Lorain County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Huntington, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

Photographs

3 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Captain Tracey House, Ashland-Overlin & Bursley Roads, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Captain Tracey House, Ashland-Overlin & Bursley Roads, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Clark-Pratt-Kemery Residence, Route 58, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Clark-Pratt-Kemery Residence, Route 58, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress
Dirlam-Allen House, State Route 58, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Dirlam-Allen House, State Route 58, Huntington, Lorain County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 743 shown

Museums hold 743 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huntington between 1888 and 1975: 663 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 26 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, B Zahuranec, B Zahuranec & party 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 Carex laxiflora, not of this specimenCarex laxiflora Lam.1888M. MetcalfPittsfield
A photograph of the species Abutilon theophrasti, not of this specimenAbutilon theophrasti Medik.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Alisma subcordatum, not of this specimenAlisma subcordatum Raf.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Amphicarpaea bracteata, not of this specimenAmphicarpaea bracteata (L.) Fernald1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Campanula americana, not of this specimenCampanula americana Mill., 17681892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Circaea lutetiana, not of this specimenCircaea lutetiana subsp. canadensis (L.) Asch. & Magnus1892not recordedHuntington
A photograph of the species Coreopsis palmata, not of this specimenCoreopsis palmata Nutt.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
A photograph of the species Coreopsis tinctoria, not of this specimenCoreopsis tinctoria Nutt.1892Phillips, E.W.Rochester
Carex tuckermanii Dewey1894A. E. RickseckerPittsfield.
Hypoxylon cohaerens (Pers.) Fr.1894Ricksecker, A. E.S. [south] of Oberlin
Mycosphaerella maculiformis (Pers.) J.Schröt.1895Kelsey F. D.Penfield

All 743 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Huntington in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 3 hail, 2 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHuntington$5,000Trees downed.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHuntington-A large tree was blown on to the road.
July 2017HailHuntington-Hail the size of quarters was reported at Findlay State Park.
March 2012HailHuntington-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2005HailHuntington-Penny size hail was observed three miles north of Huntington.

Every storm recorded in Lorain 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
Semples4.5 miles11
Wellington4.5 miles12
Rochester4.7 miles11
Brighton6.6 miles11
Penfield7.0 miles11
Pheasant Run Village8.0 miles12
Pittsfield9.2 miles12
Camden10.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064880. 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.