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

Rugby, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brownhelm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44089. The Survey maps it on the Vermilion East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rugby within Lorain County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Rugby (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Rugby (historical), surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 1,607 shown

Museums hold 1,607 specimens collected within 10 miles of Rugby (historical) between 1852 and 1974: 803 Fungi, 574 Animalia, 193 Plantae, 14 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 10 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Recksecker 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 Cantharellus minor PeckCantharellus minor Peck1896F.D. KelseyNear Oberlin
Specimen of Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
Specimen of Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.1896Kelsey, Francis DuncanKipton
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1852Drège
Uncinula flexuosa Peck1872F.D. KelseyOberlin
A photograph of the species Parus bicolor, not of this specimenParus bicolor Linnaeus, 17661874Woods, N. W.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1883not recordedBlack River, Lorain, Ohio
A photograph of the species Agrostemma githago, not of this specimenAgrostemma githago L.1885Harper, R.A.Oberlin
A photograph of the species Cercospora incarnata, not of this specimenCercospora incarnata Henn.1885F. D. Kelsey
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981885McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1885McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1885McCormick, L. M.Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 1,607 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rugby (historical): 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, FlagstoneProducer
Finnegan QuarryStoneProducer
Birmingham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lorain 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
Brownhelm1.9 miles14
Brownhelm Station2.4 miles14
Henrietta2.7 miles12
Sunnyside3.0 miles14
Vermilion-on-the-Lake3.4 miles14
Kendeigh Corner3.4 miles14
Elberta Beach3.6 miles14
South Amherst3.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071123. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.