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Portland Court, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vermilion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44089. It stands on Darby Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vermilion West quadrangle.

Portland Court within Erie County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Portland Court, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Portland Court, surveyed 1903

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 979 shown

Museums hold 979 specimens collected within 10 miles of Portland Court between 1874 and 1975: 705 Plantae, 180 Animalia, 93 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. M. Evans, 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 Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1900Grover, F.O."Dry sandy hillside, shaded
A photograph of the species Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Carex gracillima, not of this specimenCarex gracillima Schwein.1892Moseley, E.L.Shinrock
A photograph of the species Catharus fuscescens, not of this specimenCatharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817)1892C. TuttleBerlin Heights
A photograph of the species Salix discolor, not of this specimenSalix discolor Muhl.1892Moseley, E.L.Florence
A photograph of the species Huperzia lucidula, not of this specimenHuperzia lucidula (Michx.) Trevis.1893Moseley, E.L.Vermilion, Furnace Woods
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1894C. RutterVermillion River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1894Moseley, E.L.Florence
A photograph of the species Aster macrophyllus, not of this specimenAster macrophyllus L.1894Moseley, E.L.Florence Twp
A photograph of the species Circaea alpina, not of this specimenCircaea alpina subsp. alpina1894Moseley, E.L.Florence
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.1896Watson, J.R.North Ohio
Aristolochia serpentaria L.1896Simms, C.Berlin

All 979 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
Bluebird Beach0.9 miles12
Orchard Beach0.9 miles12
Vermilion1.7 miles14
Volunteer Bay1.7 miles12
Beulah Beach2.9 miles12
Axtel3.5 miles12
Ashmont (historical)3.5 miles12
Heidelberg Beach3.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122562076The 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 2514335. 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.