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

North Benton Station, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44449. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alliance quadrangle.

North Benton Station within Portage County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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 North Benton Station, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Benton Station, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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.

In the 1885 county history

3,690 words on this township

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

The chapter on Deerfield Township covers breaking first ground, settlers of 1800, the elys, days and divers- a trip on the ma-um-ing, hardships and privations, great increase- first military company, after the organization.

Read the chapter on Deerfield Township - 3,690 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 14 shown

Museums hold 14 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Benton Station between 1880 and 1968: 9 Fungi, 3 Animalia, 2 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. J. Crandall, B.J.Crandall, C. G. Lloyd 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 Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) PeckAgaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.1964B.J.CrandallShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Atwater
A photograph of the species Bidens aristosa, not of this specimenBidens aristosa (Michx.) Britton1933Wible, M.Deerfield
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201941Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Mahoning River, within Portage Co, city n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Cladonia grayi, not of this specimenCladonia grayi G.Merr. ex Sandst.1959Conan J. Taylor1/2 mi. below Berlin Reservoir, dam.
Specimen of Cyathus striatus Willd.Cyathus striatus Willd.1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Irpex cinnamomeus Fr.Irpex cinnamomeus Fr.1964Father P. SandersShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Schizophyllum commune, not of this specimenSchizophyllum commune Fr.1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park

All 14 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Benton Station: 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Deerfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valley Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Hutson (historical)1.6 miles14
Deerfield2.6 miles14
Keans (historical)4.8 miles14
All Seasons Lake Park5.0 miles14
Lloyd5.5 miles14
Davis6.2 miles14
Yale6.3 miles14
Atwater Center7.0 miles18

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 Q122573537The 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 1049017. 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.