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

Middle Bass, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Put-in-Bay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43446. It stands on Middle Bass Island. The Survey maps it on the Put-in-Bay quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Middle Bass within Ottawa 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 Middle Bass, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Middle Bass, 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

12 of 7,322 shown

Museums hold 7,322 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middle Bass between 1871 and 1975: 6,349 Animalia, 885 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 5 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. J. Pieters, A. Lewis, A. Macnaughton 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 Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)Lampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1898United States Fish Commission4 miles East, North Bass Island, Lake Erie
Specimen of Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1899not recordedLake Shore, Near East Harbor
A photograph of the species Carex L., not of this specimenCarex L.1871H. GillmanPut-in-bay Island, Lake Erie.
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis var. canadensis1872T. MorongShores of the Is. at Put-in-Bay. Lake Erie
A photograph of the species Mentha arvensis, not of this specimenMentha arvensis var. glabrata (Benth.) Fernald1872T. MorongPut-in-Bay Is. Lake Erie. On the lake shore.
A photograph of the species Solidago hispida, not of this specimenSolidago hispida Muhl. ex Willd.1872T. MorongPut-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie
A photograph of the species Diphasiastrum complanatum, not of this specimenDiphasiastrum complanatum (L.) Holub1878Roberts, ThomasPut-in Bay;;;;
A photograph of the species Maianthemum trifolium, not of this specimenMaianthemum trifolium (L.) Sloboda1878Juni, B.Put in Bay;;;;
A photograph of the species Anemone canadensis, not of this specimenAnemone canadensis L.1881Mertz, H.Put-in-Bay
A photograph of the species Calystegia sepium, not of this specimenCalystegia sepium (L.) R.Br.1881Mertz, H.N.Put-in-Bay
A photograph of the species Cerastium arvense, not of this specimenCerastium arvense f. oblongifolium (Torr.) Pennell1881Mertz, H.N.Put-in-Bay
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471894not recordedNorth Bass Island, Lake Erie

All 7,322 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Put-in-Bay1.8 miles11
Isle Saint George3.0 miles11
Catawba Island6.6 miles13
Gem Beach7.6 miles13
Foxhaven7.9 miles13
Harbor Acres9.1 miles13
Lakeside10.0 miles13
Marblehead10.4 miles13

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 Middle BassAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6841218The 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 1049671. 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.