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

Pawnee, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44275. The Survey maps it on the Lodi quadrangle.

Pawnee within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pawnee, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pawnee, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 285 shown

Museums hold 285 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pawnee between 1888 and 1975: 259 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, BJ Zahuranec & party, Bosler 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 Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1894Watson, J.R.Medina Co.
Specimen of Diatrype virescens (Schwein.) CookeDiatrype virescens (Schwein.) Cooke1906Wilson, C. B.Penfield, Ohio
Specimen of Trimmatostroma CordaTrimmatostroma Corda1907C.B. Wilson
A photograph of the species Lilium canadense, not of this specimenLilium canadense L.1888E. BarrickChatham
A photograph of the species Aleurodiscus oakesii, not of this specimenAleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Atrichum angustatum, not of this specimenAtrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Lobaria amplissima, not of this specimenLobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell1894Francis D KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mnium stellare, not of this specimenMnium stellare Hedw.1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Mycosphaerella macularis, not of this specimenMycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) J.Schröt.1894Kelsey F. D.Penfield
A photograph of the species Rhodobryum ontariense, not of this specimenRhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris1894F. D. KelseyPenfield
A photograph of the species Ricasolia quercizans, not of this specimenRicasolia quercizans (Michx.) Stizenb.1894Kelsey, F. D.Penfield
A photograph of the species Stereum fasciatum, not of this specimenStereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1894Kelsey F. D.Penfield

All 285 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
Geisingers Corners (historical)2.8 miles12
Esselburn2.8 miles12
River Corners2.8 miles12
Homer3.0 miles12
Spencer3.3 miles12
Chatham3.5 miles12
Homerville3.7 miles12
Pine Villas4.1 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on PawneeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134097The 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 1062934. 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.