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

Palmetto Beach, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Geneva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44041. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle.

Palmetto Beach within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Palmetto Beach, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Palmetto Beach, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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 857 shown

Museums hold 857 specimens collected within 10 miles of Palmetto Beach between 1872 and 1975: 712 Animalia, 121 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio

All 857 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
Woodmere0.7 miles17
Mapleton Beach1.2 miles17
Buckeye Beach1.2 miles17
Lakegrove Estates1.4 miles17
Geneva-on-the-Lake1.4 miles17
Grandview Park1.6 miles17
Saybrook-on-the-lake2.4 miles17
Erieview3.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079710. 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.

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