Risley, Ohio

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.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861; History of Medina County and Ohio, Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Medina County, Giving an Account of Its Aboriginal Inhabitants ... Pioneer Incidents, Its Growth, Its Improvements, Organization of the County ... Biographical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc. .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 361 specimens collected within 10 miles of Risley (historical) between 1884 and 1975: 322 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 18 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, B Zahuranec & party, B.J. Zahuranec 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
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	not recorded
	Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link	1894	Watson, J.R.	Medina Co.
	Nesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth	1896	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08]	[label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1884	unknown	Medina
	Halictus confusus confusus	1885	H. E. Summers	Medina
	Lilium canadense L.	1888	E. Barrick	Chatham
	Aleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Lobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell	1894	Francis D Kelsey	Penfield
	Mnium stellare Hedw.	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Mycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) J.Schröt.	1894	Kelsey F. D.	Penfield
	Rhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield

All 361 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058856. 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.

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