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

Oakpoint, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lorain City. It lies in ZIP code area 44053. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lorain quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Oakpoint 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 Oakpoint (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Oakpoint (historical), surveyed 1901

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Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Lorain city, in the words of 1879.

1879, Lorain City

Game

Game of the smaller kinds was very abundant before the hunters became too numerous. It cannot be positively stated that any old bears were killed in the township after the settlement was begun; but there is a vague tradition to the effect that Solomon Root and Joseph Ross once found two in a whitewood tree in the southwest part of the town, and killed them.

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Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,562 shown

Museums hold 1,562 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oakpoint (historical) between 1853 and 1975: 702 Fungi, 670 Animalia, 154 Plantae, 16 Protozoa, 10 Unrecorded, 10 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Recksecker 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
Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.	1896	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.	1896	F.D. Kelsey
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
Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard	1894	Kelsey, F.D.	Lorain County, Ohio
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1894	F.D. Kelsey	Oberlin
Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818)	1894	Jones, L. (Lynds)	Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey
Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Schwein.) Pouzar	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.

All 1,562 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakpoint (historical): 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cleveland Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Finnegan Quarry	Stone	Producer
Lorain Plant-National Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Plant
Lorain Plant - Marathon Steel	Iron	Producer
Lorain Plant - U.S. Steel	Iron	Producer
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Lorain Elyria Sand Company, Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Loraine Loading Dock	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
National Sand & Gravel Co Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lorain 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beaver Park	0.2 miles	15
Amherst	3.0 miles	15
Brownhelm Station	3.0 miles	14
Sunnyside	3.4 miles	14
Brownhelm	3.7 miles	14
Lorain	3.7 miles	15
Kendeigh Corner	3.9 miles	14
Vermilion-on-the-Lake	4.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1059029. 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.