Shiperd Circle, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1986

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 11 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• John Mercer Langston HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975 · 0.4 miles away
• Wilson Bruce Evans HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980 · 0.7 miles away
• Oberlin CollegeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966 · 0.9 miles away
• Burrell-King Houselisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
• Oberlin Gas Lighting Company Gasholder Houselisted 1998 · 0.7 miles away
• Westervelt Halllisted 1974 · 0.8 miles away
• Christ Episcopal Churchlisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away
• Oberlin Lake Shore And Michigan Southern Stationlisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Frank Jewett Houselisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away
• Congregational Church of Christlisted 1974 · 0.9 miles away
• Downtown Oberlin Historic Districtlisted 2003 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

History of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879; History of Lorain County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pionners, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,790 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shiperd Circle between 1852 and 1975: 923 Animalia, 610 Fungi, 221 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 13 Chromista, 8 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. E. Recksecker, A. E. Ricksecker, 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
	Cantharellus minor Peck	1896	F.D. Kelsey	Near Oberlin
	Polyporus arcularius (Batsch) Fr.	1896	Kelsey, Francis Duncan	Kipton
	Dryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt	1899	Ricksecker, A.E.	Wood 4 miles south of Oberlin.
	Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1852	Drège
	Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)	1853	Baird, Spencer Fullerton	Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1853	S. Baird	Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls)
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
	Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Elyria, Ohio
	Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1894	Dawson, W. L. (William Leon)	Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA
	Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1894	F.D. Kelsey	Oberlin
	Biscogniauxia atropunctata (Schwein.) Pouzar	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Oberlin.
	Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum	1894	Dick, W.M.	Oberlin.

All 1,790 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079609. 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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