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

Sherman Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brunswick City. It lies in ZIP code area 44212. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle.

Sherman Corners within Medina County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sherman Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sherman Corners, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1861 county history

19,274 words on this township

The county history of 1861 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Brunswick City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Brunswick City - 19,274 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 230 shown

Museums hold 230 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sherman Corners between 1884 and 1975: 195 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, Ashcroft, G.B.; O. Berea, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05] 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 230 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
Hinckley2.1 miles21
Brunswick3.0 miles13
Rolling Wheel Park3.5 miles23
Echo Lake Glen3.6 miles21
Weymouth3.7 miles13
Remsen Corners4.1 miles21
Buzzard Roost4.3 miles21
Beebetown5.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065315. 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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