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

Redbird, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44057. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle.

Redbird 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 Redbird, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Redbird, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 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 473 shown

Museums hold 473 specimens collected within 10 miles of Redbird between 1885 and 1975: 385 Animalia, 45 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 10 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, A.W. Cusick; R.H.Guckert, Adams J. M. R. 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 Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Werner, Wm. C.Thompson
Specimen of Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 1768Puccinia P.Micheli ex Haller, 17681894W. A. KellermanLane Avenue
Specimen of Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885W. C. WernerThompson
A photograph of the species Peronospora corydalis, not of this specimenPeronospora corydalis de Bary1885Collector unspecifiedMadison
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1887Zetlitz, A.Madison, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedGrand River, Painsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893A. WoolmanGrand River, Painsville, Ohio

All 473 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Redbird in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 1 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023HailRedbird-Hail up to half dollar-size about two-miles southwest of North Madison.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindRedbird-There were numerous trees blown down in Madison Township near Lake Erie.
September 1999WaterspoutRedbird-A waterspout was sighted on Lake Erie just offshore from Redbird. No damage was reported.

Every storm 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
James Place1.5 miles12
Madison-on-the-Lake1.9 miles12
North Madison2.1 miles12
Madison Beach2.5 miles12
Genung Corners2.8 miles12
Buena Vista Beach2.9 miles12
Madison3.9 miles12
Madison Dock (historical)4.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058168. 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.