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

Logtown, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Suffield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44260. The Survey maps it on the Akron East quadrangle.

Logtown within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Logtown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Logtown, surveyed 1906

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.

In the 1885 county history

213,390 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Suffield Township covers a fine township, one lonely settler, benjamin baldwin, and the "baldwin" apple, other settlers, honest john fritch, a noted hunter.

Read the chapter on Suffield Township - 213,390 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 397 shown

Museums hold 397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Logtown between 1893 and 1975: 198 Animalia, 168 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. K. Wyatt, A. Woolman, Alex K. Wyatt 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 Frankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.TisonFrankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.Tison1910Rankin; H.H. Whetzel
Specimen of Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.1910H.H. Whetzel
Specimen of Valsaria exasperans (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.Valsaria exasperans (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.1910Whetzel; Rankin
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus propinquus, not of this specimenCambarus propinquus Girard, 18521893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanKent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio

All 397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Logtown: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
American PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hilltop Aggregate, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stroup PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stroup and Sons Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Wartko PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Pony0.5 miles16
Suffield Station1.1 miles11
Suffield2.4 miles11
Mishler2.5 miles19
Bunkers Corners4.6 miles11
Hilltown (historical)4.8 miles11
Saint Joseph5.0 miles11
Brimfield Station5.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065716. 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.