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

Rolling Wheel Park, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brunswick Hills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44212. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Rolling Wheel Park within Medina County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rolling Wheel Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Rolling Wheel Park, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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 231 shown

Museums hold 231 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rolling Wheel Park between 1884 and 1975: 196 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Roberts, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea 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 Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1890not recorded
Specimen of Nesaea verticillata (L.) KunthNesaea verticillata (L.) Kunth1896Watson,J.R. s.n. [1896-08][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Liverpool, Medina Co. [Medina County]
Specimen of Aquilegia canadensis L.Aquilegia canadensis L.1897Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05][label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger Linnaeus, 17581884unknownMedina
A photograph of the species Halictus confusus, not of this specimenHalictus confusus confusus1885H. E. SummersMedina
A photograph of the species Mougeotia genuflexa, not of this specimenMougeotia genuflexa (Roth) C.Agardh1896F. D. KelseyPlum Creek
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa subsp. interior WoodsonAsclepias tuberosa subsp. interior Woodson1897Ashcroft, G.B.; O. BereaThe Western Reserve. Brunswick
A photograph of the species Culicoides guttipennis, not of this specimenCulicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)1897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1897G. B. AshcroftLester
Specimen of Hinea Townsend, 1916Hinea Townsend, 19161897J. HineMedina
A photograph of the species Platanthera psycodes, not of this specimenPlatanthera psycodes (L.) Lindl.1897G. B. AshcroftBrunswick
A photograph of the species Aplectrum hyemale, not of this specimenAplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.1898Illegible collector nameMedina

All 231 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
Brunswick1.9 miles13
Beebetown2.0 miles20
Sherman Corners3.5 miles13
Valley City Station3.6 miles14
Hardscrabble4.6 miles20
Pliny (historical)4.7 miles14
Valley City5.1 miles14
Abbeyville5.2 miles14

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 Q122588782The 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 2486129. 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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