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

McQuaid, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44667. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McQuaid within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McQuaid (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of McQuaid (historical), surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 2,006 shown

Museums hold 2,006 specimens collected within 10 miles of McQuaid (historical) between 1877 and 1975: 1,636 Animalia, 183 Plantae, 148 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)1930B. Montgomery & J. Houser2 miles northeast of Wooster
A photograph of the species Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Lasmigona complanata, not of this specimenLasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster

All 2,006 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 McQuaid (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Orrville Tile Co PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne 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
Riceland1.0 miles15
Whispering Pines Estates1.1 miles15
Dalton2.7 miles17
Orrville3.4 miles15
Kidron3.8 miles16
East Union3.8 miles15
Burton City4.0 miles17
Auburn Estates4.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061253. 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.