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

Lowell, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44883. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Watson quadrangle.

Lowell within Seneca County

Then and now

1906 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lowell, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lowell, surveyed 1906

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

12 of 284 shown

Museums hold 284 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lowell between 1890 and 1969: 250 Animalia, 23 Fungi, 11 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Babcock D. C., Baker O. E. 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 Corythucha bellula Gibson, 1918Corythucha bellula Gibson, 19181917C. DrakeTiffin
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1940Cooke, William Bridgenear Rock Creek near Jackson
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1969Jones, G.T.In moist deciduous woods. Thompson Twp., 1 mi. n. of West Lodi.
A photograph of the species Arisaema dracontium, not of this specimenArisaema dracontium (L.) Schott1890H. C. Beardslee Sr.Green Springs
A photograph of the species Parus bicolor, not of this specimenParus bicolor bicolor Sibley & Monroe, 19901891Cross, WTiffin
A photograph of the species Pluvialis dominica, not of this specimenPluvialis dominica dominica (P.L.S.Müller, 1776)1891Cross, WTiffin
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893WoolmanSandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus rusticus, not of this specimenCambarus rusticus Girard, 18521893United States Fish CommissionTiffin, Sandusky River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893WoolmanSandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893WoolmanSandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanSandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedSandusky River, Tiffin, Ohio

All 284 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Lowell in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 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
September 1997Thunderstorm WindLowell$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and moved a barn 25 feet in Adams Township, one mile north of Lowell. Two trees were also downed near Tiffin.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLowell$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed some trees.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLowell$2,000A tree was reported down across State Route 19.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindLowell-Tree downed along OH 101, near OH 19, in the Green Springs area.

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
Watson2.9 miles11
Cooper4.9 miles12
Old Fort5.5 miles11
Fort Seneca6.0 miles11
Republic6.2 miles13
West Lodi6.9 miles12
Center7.0 miles11
Fireside7.7 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on LowellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6693160The 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 1061448. 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.

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.