Ruggles Beach, Ohio

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.

1903 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.

• 1903 USGS Vermilion quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Vermilion quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Vermilion West quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Vermilion West quadrangle1:24000
• 1969 USGS Vermilion West quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000

The county history of 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Museums hold 1,391 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ruggles Beach between 1874 and 1975: 794 Plantae, 482 Animalia, 114 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. M. Evans 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
	Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore	1900	Grover, F.O.	"Dry sandy hillside, shaded
	Carduus nutans L.	1874	Jones, G.T.	Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
	Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)	1881	D. S. Young
	Athyrium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) Tidestr.	1888	Steele, E.S.	Milan.
	Carex gracillima Schwein.	1892	Moseley, E.L.	Shinrock
	Catharus fuscescens fuscescens (Stephens, 1817)	1892	C. Tuttle	Berlin Heights
	Salix discolor Muhl.	1892	Moseley, E.L.	Florence
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1893	Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln Moseley	Milan, Huron River
	Huperzia lucidula (Michx.) Trevis.	1893	Moseley, E.L.	Vermilion, Furnace Woods
	Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.	1896	Watson, J.R.	North Ohio
	Aristolochia serpentaria L.	1896	Simms, C.	Berlin
	Carex bromoides Willd.	1896	Moseley, E.L.	Milan

All 1,391 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ruggles Beach: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Erie County

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 1065255. 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.