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

Pleasant Valley, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Willoughby Hills City. It lies in ZIP code area 44094. The Survey maps it on the Mayfield Heights quadrangle.

Pleasant Valley within Lake 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 Pleasant Valley, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pleasant Valley, 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 997 shown

Museums hold 997 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pleasant Valley between 1887 and 1975: 956 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Aldritch, J W, Ames, Oakes 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 Asplenium trichomanes L.Asplenium trichomanes L.1887Leonard, F.E.Little Mountain.
Specimen of Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.Conocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1897Jesse M. GreenmanLittle Mountain
Specimen of Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1897AshcroftMentor
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedWilloughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021893A. WoolmanChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893not recordedChagrin River, Willoughby, Ohio
Specimen of Marchantia polymorpha L.Marchantia polymorpha L.1897Jesse M. GreenmanLittle Mountain
A photograph of the species Coccyzus americanus, not of this specimenCoccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Ray DensmoreMentor
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Densmore, R.Mentor
A photograph of the species Sclerotinia libertiana, not of this specimenSclerotinia libertiana Fuckel1912Rosenbaum
unnamed1913Rosenbaum

All 997 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 Pleasant Valley: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Abrasive, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, OhioSilicaProducer
Gordon-Warren/ Wickliffe, OhioAbrasiveProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Willoughby Hills1.0 miles17
Waite Hill2.1 miles17
Pecks Corners2.9 miles13
Wickliffe2.9 miles17
South Church2.9 miles13
Concord Estates3.1 miles17
Willoughby3.4 miles14
Kirtland3.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1052944. 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.

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.