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

Oregon Corners, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stow City. It lies in ZIP code area 44224. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle.

Oregon Corners within Summit 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 Oregon Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Oregon Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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 1908 county history

241 words on this township

The county history of 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Stow City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Stow City - 241 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 790 shown

Museums hold 790 specimens collected within 10 miles of Oregon Corners between 1867 and 1975: 685 Animalia, 57 Plantae, 47 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Woolman, A.E. Daugherty 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 Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianumBotrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum1888Wright, A.A.Tallmadge.
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Asclepias verticillata L.Asclepias verticillata L.1889not recordedAkron
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1867Collector(s): James Lee PetersAkron
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1880F. O. PayneAkron
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1888E.L. Sturtevant II
A photograph of the species Lonicera dioica, not of this specimenLonicera dioica L.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Penstemon hirsutus, not of this specimenPenstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Carex pensylvanica, not of this specimenCarex pensylvanica Lam.1889Foltz, K.O.Akron
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Peltandra virginica, not of this specimenPeltandra virginica (L.) Schott1889Foltz, Kent O.Akron; Blue Pond

All 790 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Corners: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Herms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hudson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Northern Ohio Materials Hudson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Riverside PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Fish Creek0.8 miles14
Stow1.9 miles14
Munroe Falls2.4 miles14
Silver Lake2.7 miles14
Darrowville3.1 miles14
Metz3.5 miles14
Cuyahoga Falls4.8 miles14
Tallmadge4.9 miles16

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 Q122543457The 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 1067321. 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.