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Penfield, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Penfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44090. It stands on Center Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lagrange quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1986The 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.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,682 shownMuseums hold 1,682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Penfield between 1872 and 1975: 1,028 Animalia, 461 Fungi, 163 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, A. M. Evans 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cantharellus minor Peck | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | Near Oberlin |
 | Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr. | 1896 | F.D. Kelsey | |
 | Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt | 1899 | Ricksecker, A.E. | Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin. |
| Uncinula flexuosa Peck | 1872 | F.D. Kelsey | Oberlin | |
 | Parus bicolor Linnaeus, 1766 | 1874 | Woods, N. W. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Agrostemma githago L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Cercospora incarnata Henn. | 1885 | F. D. Kelsey | |
 | Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898 | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Dendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810) | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Medeola virginiana L. | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Mertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link | 1885 | Harper, R.A. | Oberlin |
 | Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783) | 1885 | McCormick, L. M. | Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
All 1,682 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
12 since 2000The National Weather Service names Penfield in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2014: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large limbs. The limbs fell and damaged vehicles. An evergreen tree fell onto a house, and a barn was moved ten feet off its foundation. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted a three and a half foot diameter tree. Several other large trees nearby were also downed by the thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Penfield | $5,000 | Dime size hail was reported. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large limbs near Penfield. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Penfield | - | Penny to quarter sized hail was observed. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a couple of large trees. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Penfield | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Penfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Penfield | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pheasant Run Village | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Lagrange | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wellington | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Nickelplate (historical) | 6.9 miles | 14 | |
| Huntington | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Pittsfield | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Belden | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Grafton | 8.0 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1044365. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.