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

Kingsleys Corners, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grafton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44044. The Survey maps it on the Grafton quadrangle.

Kingsleys Corners within Lorain County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kingsleys Corners, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Kingsleys Corners, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 463 shown

Museums hold 463 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kingsleys Corners between 1853 and 1975: 377 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans, 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Stereum lobatum (Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Black River, east of Oberlin.
Cyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni	1899	A. E. Ricksecker	Lorain County.
Frullania eboracensis Gottsche	1900	Frederick O. Grover
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Mycosphaerella maculiformis (Pers.) J.Schröt.	1895	Kelsey F. D.	Penfield
Dunkleosteus terrelli Newberry, 1873 (fossil)	1896	Dr. G. M. Allen
Mougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Plum Creek, Oberlin
Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth	1896	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
Euphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray	1897	G. B. Ashcroft	Lester

All 463 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Belden	1.5 miles	11
Grafton	1.9 miles	16
Eaton Estates	3.5 miles	16
Eaton	3.7 miles	16
North Eaton	4.3 miles	20
Brentwood Lake	4.8 miles	16
Lagrange	5.4 miles	11
Columbia Station	5.4 miles	20

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 Q122554641

The 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 1065703. 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.

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