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Roaming Shores, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44084. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. 1,586 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Roaming Shores within Ashtabula County

Population over time

2 figures

Roaming Shores grew from 1,508 to 1,586 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,508
20201,586+78 (+5%)

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 Roaming Shores, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Roaming Shores, 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.

In the 1920 county history

3,392 words on this township

The county history of 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Morgan Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Morgan Township - 3,392 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 910 shown

Museums hold 910 specimens collected within 10 miles of Roaming Shores between 1872 and 1975: 862 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 19 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Fuller, A.E. Daugherty, Ansley, G 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 Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.1872L. B. Tuckerman
Specimen of Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal.1891Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal.1895Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cardamine douglassii, not of this specimenCardamine douglassii Britton1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Conopholis americana, not of this specimenConopholis americana (L.) Wallr.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Geum rivale, not of this specimenGeum rivale L.1890E. E. BogueOrwell.
A photograph of the species Sceptridium dissectum, not of this specimenSceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon1890E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Cladonia pyxidata, not of this specimenCladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm.1891Bogue, E.E.Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144
A photograph of the species Lecanora caesiorubella, not of this specimenLecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella1891E. E. BogueOrwell
A photograph of the species Physcia stellaris, not of this specimenPhyscia stellaris (L.) Nyl.1891Bogue, E. E.Orwell
Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb.1892E. E. BogueOrwell

All 910 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
Turkey Foot Corner2.1 miles12
Rock Creek2.3 miles12
Rome3.5 miles13
New Lyme3.5 miles13
Rays Corners3.6 miles12
New Lyme Station3.8 miles13
Lenox Center4.1 miles12
Dodgeville4.2 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Roaming ShoresAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1881194The 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 1052967. 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.