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

Pittsfield, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pittsfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44090. The Survey maps it on the Wellington quadrangle.

Pittsfield within Lorain 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 Pittsfield, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Pittsfield, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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 1,779 shown

Museums hold 1,779 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pittsfield between 1852 and 1975: 956 Animalia, 572 Fungi, 219 Plantae, 13 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 6 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cantharellus minor PeckCantharellus minor Peck1896F.D. KelseyNear Oberlin
Specimen of Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.1896Kelsey, Francis DuncanKipton
Specimen of Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1899Ricksecker, A.E.Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin.
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1852Drège
Uncinula flexuosa Peck1872F.D. KelseyOberlin
A photograph of the species Parus bicolor, not of this specimenParus bicolor Linnaeus, 17661874Woods, N. W.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agrostemma githago, not of this specimenAgrostemma githago L.1885Harper, R.A.Oberlin
A photograph of the species Cercospora incarnata, not of this specimenCercospora incarnata Henn.1885F. D. Kelsey
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981885McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1885McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Medeola virginiana, not of this specimenMedeola virginiana L.1885Harper, R.A.Oberlin
A photograph of the species Mertensia virginica, not of this specimenMertensia virginica (L.) Pers. ex Link1885Harper, R.A.Oberlin

All 1,779 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Pittsfield in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPittsfield$15,000A thunderstorm downburst with winds estimated to be at least 60 mph snapped several large trees. Shingles on a nearby home were torn off and a flag pole was also toppled.
May 2011Flash FloodPittsfield-Strong thunderstorms with hail and heavy rain moved over Lorain County. The town of Pittsfield had high water on several roads most notably Quarry Road and Russia Road where depths were near waist deep in spots. Doppler Radar estimated over 2.5 in this area over 2 hours.

Every storm recorded in Lorain 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shiperd Circle3.6 miles14
Nickelplate (historical)3.8 miles14
Robin Park3.8 miles14
Oberlin3.9 miles14
Pheasant Run Village4.1 miles12
Camden4.6 miles11
Wellington4.7 miles12
Kipton4.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061546. 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.