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

Sand Beach, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Carroll Township. It sits by Locust Point. The Survey maps it on the Lacarne quadrangle.

Sand Beach within Ottawa County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sand Beach, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sand Beach, surveyed 1900

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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sand Beach between 2019 and 2019, burning about 0 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 March 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOttawa National Wildlife RefugeKONST FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ottawa County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,059 shown

Museums hold 2,059 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sand Beach between 1828 and 1975: 2,037 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Chromista, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Al Szuch, Anderson, J. (John) 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
A photograph of the species Pseudoleskea rigescens, not of this specimenPseudoleskea rigescens Lindb.1828Thomas DrummondBanks of the Portage River
A photograph of the species Charadrius vociferus, not of this specimenCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 17581879not recorded
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1880Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Riparia riparia, not of this specimenRiparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Tachycineta bicolor, not of this specimenTachycineta bicolor (Vieillot, 1808)1880Porter collection, J.B.
A photograph of the species Sterna hirundo, not of this specimenSterna hirundo Linnaeus, 17581891McCormick, L. M.Rattlesnake Island, Lake Erie, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1894C. RutterPortage River, Oak Harbor, Ohio
Cerastium velutinum var. velutinum1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyLakeside Marblehead [Peninsula], Hartshorn's Dock
A photograph of the species Myosotis verna, not of this specimenMyosotis verna Nutt.1895E. L. Moseley
A photograph of the species Euphagus carolinus, not of this specimenEuphagus carolinus (Statius Muller, 1776)1897Jones, L. (Lynds)Lake Erie Oak Point, Ottawa, Ohio, USA

All 2,059 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
Long Beach0.9 miles14
Locust Point1.5 miles14
Maple Grove (historical)5.6 miles13
Lacarne7.1 miles14
Limestone7.3 miles13
Oak Harbor7.6 miles13
Rocky Ridge8.1 miles13
Grodis Corner8.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049150. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.