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

Nickelplate, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in LaGrange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44050. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oberlin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Nickelplate within Lorain 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 Nickelplate (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Nickelplate (historical), surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1,808 shown

Museums hold 1,808 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nickelplate (historical) between 1852 and 1975: 1,014 Animalia, 567 Fungi, 194 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 5 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Cantharellus minor Peck	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Near Oberlin
Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.	1896	Kelsey, Francis Duncan	Kipton
Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1899	Ricksecker, A.E.	Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin.
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1852	Drège
Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1894	Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1894	F.D. Kelsey	Oberlin
Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Schwein.) Pouzar	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum	1894	Dick, W.M.	Oberlin.

All 1,808 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lagrange	2.7 miles	11
Shiperd Circle	2.9 miles	14
Pittsfield	3.8 miles	12
Oberlin	3.8 miles	14
Pheasant Run Village	4.0 miles	12
Robin Park	4.6 miles	14
Grafton	5.5 miles	16
Brentwood Lake	5.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1068279. 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.

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