Block
North Munson, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Munson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44024. The Survey maps it on the Chesterland quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Mentor quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Mentor quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Chesterland quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Chesterland quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Chesterland quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Chesterland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Chesterland quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland North quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
12,805 words on this townshipPioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Munson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
There are two churches, one at the mills, a Disciple church, and one at North Munson, a Christian church* A town hall, store, hotel, one post-office, two blacksmith shops, two shoe stores, two pennanent grave-yards - one at the mills and one at Maple hill - several family burying grounds, eight school districts, houses mostly new and in good repair. The line of the Painesville and Hudson railroad was located and partly graded through the Munson valley of the Chagrin, but like many other partly finished roads, is resting for money to resurrect it monthly meetings with, apparently, good results. A union meeting of farmers' clubs from Claridon, Chardon, Hambden, and Munson was held at Bass lake last fall (1879), which was numerously attended, by outsiders as well as members. The day was auspicious. The Claridon cornet band touched the keynote of musical inspiration. The speeches of members of the different clubs were edifying, instructive, and some were humorous. On the whole every body seemed to enjoy the occasion.
Passage source: Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 2,870 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,870 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Munson between 1887 and 1975: 2,741 Animalia, 113 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Clewell, A. Hoenigman, 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1891 | Fred Haggart | |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1895 | Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30] | [label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County] |
 | Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort. | 1896 | Edo N. Claassen | Thompson Ledges |
 | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | Little Mountain. |
 | Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray | 1887 | Leonard, F.E. | Munson |
 | Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | 1889 | Collector(s): F. S. Haggart | No specific locality recorded. |
 | Cypripedium reginae Walter | 1896 | J. R. Watson | Geauga |
 | Stachys cordata Riddell | 1896 | Guttenberg, G. | Burton |
 | Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw. | 1897 | Jesse M. Greenman | Little Mountain |
 | Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr. | 1897 | Ashcroft | Mentor |
 | Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. | 1897 | J. R. Watson | Munson |
 | Marchantia polymorpha L. | 1897 | Jesse M. Greenman | Little Mountain |
All 2,870 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Munson: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Sand Corporation | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Best Strip Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fowlers Mill | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Clarks | 3.3 miles | 15 | |
| Chardon Centre (historical) | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Chester Center | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Beudale (historical) | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Fullertown | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Chesterland | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| East Bass Lake | 4.9 miles | 15 |
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 Q122541088 | The 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 1065851. 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.