Moran, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

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.

• 1906 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Chagrin Falls quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1963 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Twinsburg quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 835 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moran between 1893 and 1975: 582 Animalia, 217 Plantae, 30 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Alex K. Wyatt, Allen, E. J. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Frankiella alni (Woronin) Maire & A.Tison	1910	Rankin; H.H. Whetzel
	Stereum frustulatum (Pers.) Fr.	1910	H.H. Whetzel
	Valsaria exasperans (W.R.Gerard) Sacc.	1910	Whetzel; Rankin
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Cambarus propinquus Girard, 1852	1893	Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Kent, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Labidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio
	Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Kent, Ohio

All 835 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Moran: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Portage County

The National Weather Service names Moran in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 2 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Portage County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071104. 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.