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

Orange Center, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pepper Pike City. It lies in ZIP code area 44124. The Survey maps it on the Chagrin Falls quadrangle.

Orange Center within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Orange Center, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Orange Center, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 2,065 shown

Museums hold 2,065 specimens collected within 10 miles of Orange Center between 1879 and 1975: 1,966 Animalia, 57 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Walworth, A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G 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 Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.GrayOsmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.Gray1897Winkler, H.J.Cleveland. Moist woods.
A photograph of the species Lanius excubitor, not of this specimenLanius excubitor borealis Vieillot, 18081879A. W. WalworthCollamen (=Collamer?)
A photograph of the species Progne subis, not of this specimenProgne subis subis (Linnaeus, 1758)1879A. W. WalworthCollamer
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1880A. W. WalworthCollamen (=Collamer?)
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1882not recordedLOCNM: Collamer
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1885Ashpur, J.East Cleavland
Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1885Shafer, J.A.East Cleveland
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1885Shafer, J.A.East Cleveland
A photograph of the species Cyperus lupulinus, not of this specimenCyperus lupulinus subsp. macilentus (Fernald) Marcks1886Patterson, B.H.Wade Park, Cleveland
A photograph of the species Betula L., not of this specimenBetula L.1888JasliafroCleveland; Lake View
A photograph of the species Cryptotaenia canadensis, not of this specimenCryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.1890R. H. IngrahamMiles
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio

All 2,065 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Moreland Hills1.1 miles17
Pepper Pike1.8 miles17
Woodmere2.3 miles17
Orange2.4 miles17
Hunting Valley2.7 miles17
Chagrin Falls3.3 miles17
North Solon3.4 miles17
Bentleyville3.7 miles17

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 Q122551947The 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 1057163. 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.