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

Risley, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chatham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44253. The Survey maps it on the Lagrange quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Risley within Medina 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 Risley (historical), surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of Risley (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the 1861 county history

947 words on this township

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chatham Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chatham Township - 947 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 361 shown

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.

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.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Litchfield	2.5 miles	11
Chatham	2.7 miles	12
River Corners	3.4 miles	12
Geisingers Corners (historical)	4.4 miles	12
Spencer	4.9 miles	12
Pawnee	5.0 miles	12
Erhart	5.7 miles	14
Centerville (historical)	5.8 miles	12

Provenance

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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