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Osborn Corners, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44333. The Survey maps it on the West Richfield quadrangle.

Osborn Corners within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Osborn Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Osborn Corners, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

47,064 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 Bath Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bath Township - 47,064 words.

Fires nearby

2 since 1997

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Osborn Corners between 1997 and 2012, burning about 1 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBRUNTY
22 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkERDOS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 612 shown

Museums hold 612 specimens collected within 10 miles of Osborn Corners between 1877 and 1973: 587 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. R. 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedCry River
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Summit, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1893not recordedPeninsula
A photograph of the species Sialia sialis, not of this specimenSialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Nemopanthus mucronata, not of this specimenNemopanthus mucronata (L.) Trel.1899Selby, A.D.; Dallinga, R.J.White Pond
A photograph of the species Storeria dekayi, not of this specimenStoreria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)1900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Kent, Summit Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Ixobrychus exilis, not of this specimenIxobrychus exilis exilis (Gmelin, 1789)1903Cranz, E. F. (Eugene F.)Akron, Summit, Ohio, USA

All 612 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
Broadview2.4 miles21
Bath2.4 miles21
Richfield Heights2.6 miles21
West Richfield2.9 miles21
Bath Center3.2 miles21
Richfield3.4 miles21
West Center3.6 miles16
Ghent3.7 miles21

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 Q122546244The 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 1044200. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.