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

Parkertown, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Groton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44824. The Survey maps it on the Bellevue quadrangle.

Parkertown within Erie County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Parkertown, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Parkertown, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

2,196 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 Groton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Groton Township - 2,196 words.

Fires nearby

3 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Parkertown between 2002 and 2002, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Erie County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,814 shown

Museums hold 1,814 specimens collected within 10 miles of Parkertown between 1860 and 1975: 1,081 Animalia, 531 Plantae, 175 Fungi, 26 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Dowdy, A. Lewis, A. M. Ferguson 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Lampsilis radiata radiata (Gmelin, 1791)	1898	United States Fish Commission	Sandusky Bay
Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1898	United States Fish Commission & W. Kendall	Sandusky Bay near mouth of Sandusky River
Perca Linnaeus, 1758	1860	Smithsonian Institution	Sandusky
Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)	1868	No Person (Birds)	Taylor
Graminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous	1886	William Trelease; A. Commons	Madison
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758	1886	Smithsonian Institution
Scolecotrichum graminis Fuckel	1886	Dr. Wm. Trelease; A. Commons	(a) Madison, Wis. (b) Faulkland, Del.
Athyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.	1888	Steele, E.S.	Milan.
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1889	Scribner F. L.	Sandusky
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	1896	E. L. Moseley	Margaretta Ridge
Asclepias verticillata L.	1896	E. L. Moseley	Groton
Asplenium rhizophyllum L.	1896	Moseley, E.L.	Margaretta Ridge

All 1,814 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Parkertown: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sandusky Crushed Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Sandusky Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sand Hill	2.1 miles	18
Weyers	2.3 miles	18
Bloomingville	3.3 miles	12
Lyme (historical)	3.6 miles	18
Castalia	4.0 miles	16
Prout (historical)	4.7 miles	12
North Monroeville	5.1 miles	12
Kimball	5.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049060. 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.

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.