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

Kendeigh Corner, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amherst Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44001. The Survey maps it on the Vermilion East quadrangle.

Kendeigh Corner within Lorain County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kendeigh Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Kendeigh Corner, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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 2,091 shown

Museums hold 2,091 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kendeigh Corner between 1852 and 1975: 1,001 Animalia, 827 Fungi, 222 Plantae, 16 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 12 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Recksecker 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 Cantharellus minor PeckCantharellus minor Peck1896F.D. KelseyNear Oberlin
Specimen of Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
Specimen of Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.1896Kelsey, Francis DuncanKipton
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1852Drège
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1853Baird, Spencer FullertonBlack River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191853S. BairdBlack River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdElyria, Ohio
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1894Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard1894Kelsey, F.D.Lorain County, Ohio
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1894F.D. KelseyOberlin
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)1894Jones, L. (Lynds)Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 2,091 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kendeigh Corner: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. 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
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, FlagstoneProducer
Finnegan QuarryStoneProducer
Birmingham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
South Amherst1.6 miles12
Brownhelm1.7 miles14
Amherst2.1 miles15
Whiskyville2.4 miles14
Brownhelm Station3.1 miles14
Rugby (historical)3.4 miles14
Henrietta3.6 miles12
Oakpoint (historical)3.9 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122549328The 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 1064923. 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.