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

South Church, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Kirtland City. It lies in ZIP code area 44094. It stands on Gildersleeve Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Chesterland quadrangle.

South Church within Lake 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 South Church, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of South Church, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,393 shown

Museums hold 1,393 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Church between 1864 and 1975: 1,171 Animalia, 143 Plantae, 69 Fungi, 6 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1885Werner, WM.C.near Painesville
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.ClausenAthyrium filix-femina subsp. angustum (Willd.) R.T.Clausen1885Werner, Wm. C.Painesville
Specimen of Periploca graeca L.Periploca graeca L.1886Werner, WM.C.Near Painesville
A photograph of the species Leucodon brachypus, not of this specimenLeucodon brachypus Brid.1864E. J. Ferris
A photograph of the species Mnium spinulosum, not of this specimenMnium spinulosum Bruch & Schimp.1864E. J. FerrisPainesville
A photograph of the species Dicranella heteromalla, not of this specimenDicranella heteromalla (Hedw.) Schimp.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Didymodon tophaceus, not of this specimenDidymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Discelium nudum, not of this specimenDiscelium nudum (Dicks.) Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Drepanocladus polycarpos, not of this specimenDrepanocladus polycarpos (Blandow ex Voit) Warnst.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
Eurhynchium pulchellum (Hedw.) Jenn.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.
A photograph of the species Orthotrichum stellatum, not of this specimenOrthotrichum stellatum Brid.1871H. C. Beardslee, Sr.

All 1,393 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Church: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Gen. Electric/ Willoughby, OhioSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in Lake 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
Parks Corner1.2 miles13
Pecks Corners1.4 miles13
Kirtland1.8 miles16
Waite Hill2.0 miles17
Kirtland Hills2.5 miles13
Pleasant Valley2.9 miles17
Brentwood3.3 miles16
Willoughby Hills3.7 miles17

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122547954The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062573. 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.