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

Longley, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 44830. The Survey maps it on the Fostoria quadrangle.

Longley within Seneca 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 Longley, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Longley, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

4 of 6 shown

Museums hold 6 specimens collected within 10 miles of Longley between 1901 and 1950: 6 Animalia. 4 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Chidester, D. (Dale), Goodpaster, W., Kinsley Labs. 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 Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631901not recordedKansas
A photograph of the species Ascaris equorum, not of this specimenAscaris equorum Goeze, 17821928Kinsley LabsKansas City
A photograph of the species Sylvilagus floridanus, not of this specimenSylvilagus floridanus (J.A.Allen, 1890)1939Goodpaster, W.Fostoria
A photograph of the species Minytrema melanops, not of this specimenMinytrema melanops (Rafinesque, 1820)1950Chidester, D. (Dale)Wolf Creek, Sec 19 of Liberty township, ~1.9 mi E of Amsden, Liberty township

All 6 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 Longley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: REE. 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
Union Carbide/ Fostoria, OhioREEProducer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Storms nearby

1 since 2022

The National Weather Service names Longley in 1 storm report between 2022 and 2022: 1 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLongley-Trees downed onto building near intersection of TR 172 and CR 25, about four-miles southeast of Risingsun. Unsure of any damage to building.

Every storm recorded in Seneca 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
Rehoboth1.4 miles11
Fostoria4.5 miles11
Amsden4.9 miles11
Iler6.0 miles11
Raineys (historical)6.9 miles11
Kansas7.4 miles11
Angus7.4 miles11
Hopewell Estates7.5 miles11

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 Q122572180The 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 1057816. 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.

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.