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

Saybrook, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Saybrook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44004. The Survey maps it on the Ashtabula South quadrangle.

Saybrook within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Saybrook, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Saybrook, surveyed 1905

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 944 shown

Museums hold 944 specimens collected within 10 miles of Saybrook between 1872 and 1975: 778 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 22 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. A. Bill, A. B. Fuller, A. Burhanna 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 Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)Actinonaias carinata gibba (C.T.Simpson, 1900)1903not recordedCuyahoga River, South Park, Above Cleveland
Specimen of unnamed1915Munsell; Harvey
A photograph of the species Hymenostylium recurvirostrum, not of this specimenHymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dixon1872not recorded
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1891J. B. Brockway
A photograph of the species Moxostoma anisurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma anisurum (Rafinesque, 1820)1891not recordedGeneva
A photograph of the species Riccia fluitans, not of this specimenRiccia fluitans L.1892E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1893A. WoolmanAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanRed Brook, Harbor, Ohio
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1893Woolman & United States Fish CommissionGeneva, Cowles Creek
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedCowles Creek, Geneva, Ohio
A photograph of the species Dendrolycopodium dendroideum, not of this specimenDendrolycopodium dendroideum (Michx.) A.Haines1893A. A. BillGeneva
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedAshtabula River, Ashtabula, Ohio

All 944 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saybrook: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dreslinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dreslinski PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ashtabula County

Storms nearby

6 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Saybrook in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSaybrook$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees from Saybrook to Ashtabula. One of the trees blocked a road and a second landed on some railroad tracks.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSaybrook$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs in Saybrook Township.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSaybrook$2,000Power pole downed about 1.5-miles NNE of Saybrook.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindSaybrook$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSaybrook-Several large trees and branches were blown down in Saybrook Township.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindSaybrook-Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Munson Hill2.7 miles14
Saybrook-on-the-lake3.2 miles17
Meadowood3.3 miles14
Century Bay3.5 miles15
Erieview3.5 miles15
Palmetto Beach3.7 miles17
Austinburg3.9 miles14
Mareddy Estates4.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075155. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.