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

Simons, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Williamsfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44093. It stands on McMichael Creek. The Survey maps it on the Andover quadrangle.

Simons within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Simons, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Simons, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 85 shown

Museums hold 85 specimens collected within 10 miles of Simons between 1895 and 1974: 69 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bogue, E.E., C. B. Hellquist, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 Calicium quercinum Pers.Calicium quercinum Pers.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Schizophyllum commune Fr.Schizophyllum commune Fr.1896F. D. KelseyWilliamsfield.; 41.533387 -80.570629
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. BogueWayne
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Melanohalea olivacea, not of this specimenMelanohalea olivacea (L.) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch1895Bogue, E.E.Wayne
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, west of Andover, ~3.9 mi W of Andover, Cherry Valley township

All 85 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Simons in 1 storm report between 2017 and 2017: 1 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
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSimons$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees at Pymatuning State Park.

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
Williamsfield2.0 miles18
West Williamsfield4.0 miles18
Andover Country Meadows5.0 miles18
Andover5.5 miles18
Wick6.1 miles17
West Andover6.6 miles18
Mann6.9 miles17
Wayne7.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065329. 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.

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.