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Madison-on-the-Lake, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44057. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Madison-on-the-Lake within Lake County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Madison-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Madison-on-the-Lake, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 228 shown

Museums hold 228 specimens collected within 10 miles of Madison-on-the-Lake between 1885 and 1975: 178 Animalia, 32 Fungi, 10 Chromista, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick; R.H.Guckert, Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M. 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 Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 17681894W. A. KellermanLane Avenue
Specimen of Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Peronospora corydalis, not of this specimenPeronospora corydalis de Bary1885Collector unspecifiedMadison
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acroneuria internata, not of this specimenAcroneuria internata (Walker, 1852)1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Neoperla clymene, not of this specimenNeoperla clymene (Newman, 1839)1894not recorded
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus monticola Todd, 19401897Ray DensmorePerry
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Ray DensmorePerry
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898E.A. DoolittlePerry
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081898Densmore, R.Perry
Ceryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941898Ray DensmorePerry, By side of Grand River

All 228 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 1994

The National Weather Service names Madison-on-the-Lake in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 2 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMadison-on-the Lake$5,000Trees were downed. A boat was reported to have been blown from the lake onto a residents front porch.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMadison On The Lake-Several large trees downed in the North Madison area.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Madison Beach0.6 miles12
Redbird1.9 miles12
Madison Dock (historical)2.2 miles12
James Place2.2 miles12
North Madison2.4 miles12
Driftwood2.5 miles12
Genung Corners3.2 miles12
Unionville4.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122543991The 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 1070831. 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.