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

Silo, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mantua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44255. The Survey maps it on the Aurora quadrangle.

Silo within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Silo, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Silo, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Mantua township, in the words of 1885.

1885, Mantua Township

Mantua T0Wk8Hip

Judson's first wife in 1804; Wareham Loomis' child, two years old, in 1805; Jacob Blnir, killed at a " raising" in 1807; Mark Moore died in 1812; Sanjuel Jodsoa's wife in 1813; Ichabod Payne in 1S13; Melissa Keed in 181G; Enoch Jndson's aeoond wife died in 1810; Amzi Atwater, son of ilmzi, Sr., in 1810; Caleb, son of Rnfus Edwarda, aboat 1817; Leona^N], son of L orouz ) Chapin, in 1818; wife of Basil Windsor, Sr., in 1818; Martha, ciau^'ht.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1885 county history

10,315 words on this township

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mantua Township covers first settler of portage county, first wheat, amzi atwater, elias harmon, other settlers, organization.

Read the chapter on Mantua Township - 10,315 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 511 shown

Museums hold 511 specimens collected within 10 miles of Silo between 1893 and 1975: 434 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Bruyne P de 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 Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Equisetum palustre L.Equisetum palustre L.1918Hopkins, L.S.Kent. In sticky mud in ditch along W. & L.E.R.R. two miles north of Kent.
Specimen of Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 1908Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 19081936W. ThrasherGarrettville
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1893not recordedGarrettsville
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1893WoolmanCuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 511 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 27 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Silo: 12 producers, 12 past producers, 3 plants. 15 still produce. 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
Auburn Aggregates Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Beck Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haueter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haueter Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Leone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucky PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucky Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Miller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Mantua Center1.9 miles13
Mantua Corners3.2 miles13
Aurora3.5 miles17
Mantua3.5 miles13
Camelot Village4.4 miles17
Freedom Dam4.5 miles14
Pine Manor4.7 miles14
Evergreen Village5.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1063018. 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.