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

Oberlin Beach, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44839. It stands on Old Woman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huron quadrangle.

Oberlin Beach within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Oberlin Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Oberlin Beach, surveyed 1904

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.

In the 1916 county history

6,812 words on this township

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Berlin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Berlin Township - 6,812 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,595 shown

Museums hold 1,595 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oberlin Beach between 1874 and 1975: 840 Plantae, 636 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1900Grover, F.O."Dry sandy hillside, shaded
A photograph of the species Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis, not of this specimenMacropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)1881D. S. Young
A photograph of the species Graminopassalora graminis, not of this specimenGraminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous1886William Trelease; A. CommonsMadison
A photograph of the species Scolecotrichum graminis, not of this specimenScolecotrichum graminis Fuckel1886Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons(a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del.
A photograph of the species Athyrium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenAthyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.1888Steele, E.S.Milan.
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1892Moseley, E.L.Shinrock
A photograph of the species Catharus fuscescens, not of this specimenCatharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817)1892C. TuttleBerlin Heights
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.1896Watson, J.R.North Ohio
Aristolochia serpentaria L.1896Simms, C.Berlin
A photograph of the species Carex bromoides, not of this specimenCarex bromoides Willd.1896Moseley, E.L.Milan
Carex digitalis Willd.1896Moseley, E.L.Berlin Heights

All 1,595 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oberlin Beach: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Huron Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Horon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Huron PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Shinrock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Shinrock Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Ceylon1.1 miles14
Colonial Villa1.1 miles12
Anderson1.2 miles14
Ruggles Beach1.7 miles12
Chaska Beach1.8 miles14
Berlin Heights Station2.2 miles14
Mitiwanga2.3 miles12
Shinrock2.6 miles13

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 Q122570213The 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 1076547. 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.