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

Island View, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rossford City. It lies in ZIP code area 43460. It stands on Grassy Island. The Survey maps it on the Rossford quadrangle.

Island View within Wood County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Island View, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Island View, surveyed 1900

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Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 161 shown

Museums hold 161 specimens collected within 10 miles of Island View between 1875 and 1975: 154 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Lose, Aborn, R., Angle, E. (Eric) 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 Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1907L. L. RedickPerrysburg
Specimen of Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)1908not recordedMaumee
Specimen of Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)Sialia sialis sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1920L. L. RedickPerrysburg
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1875LangdonIndian Hill, Kane County
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651893United States Bureau of FisheriesMaumee River, Waterville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Orconectes propinquus, not of this specimenOrconectes propinquus (Girard, 1852)1893P. KirschMaumee Basin
A photograph of the species Palaemonetes kadiakensis, not of this specimenPalaemonetes kadiakensis M.J.Rathbun, 19021893P. KirschMaumee Basin
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1894C. RutterToledo (Perrysburg), Ohio
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1894not recordedPerrysburg, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521894C. RutterPerrysburg, Presque Isle
A photograph of the species Dorosoma cepedianum, not of this specimenDorosoma cepedianum (Lesueur, 1818)1894C. RutterMaumee River at Perrysburg, Ohio
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1894not recordedPerrysburg, Maumee River

All 161 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Island View: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Lime City PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Wood 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
Ranch Gardens0.1 miles14
Frances Gardens0.3 miles14
Grassy Creek0.5 miles14
Valley Hills0.5 miles14
Bates0.6 miles14
Eagle Point Colony0.8 miles14
Candyce Grove0.9 miles14
Belmont Woods0.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1951787. 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.