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

Spears Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44846. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle.

Spears Corners within Erie County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spears Corners, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Spears Corners, surveyed 1904

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 2,185 shown

Museums hold 2,185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spears Corners between 1860 and 1975: 1,127 Plantae, 818 Animalia, 214 Fungi, 26 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Dowdy, A. Lewis 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 Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & RavazLaestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1899F.L. Scribner
Specimen of Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.MooreDennstaedtia punctilobula (Michx.) T.Moore1900Grover, F.O."Dry sandy hillside, shaded
A photograph of the species Perca Linnaeus, not of this specimenPerca Linnaeus, 17581860Smithsonian InstitutionSandusky
A photograph of the species Vermivora chrysoptera, not of this specimenVermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)1868No Person (Birds)Taylor
A photograph of the species Carduus nutans, not of this specimenCarduus nutans L.1874Jones, G.T.Berlin Twp., just W of Ceylon
A photograph of the species Macropetalichthys rhapheidolabis, not of this specimenMacropetalichthys rhapheidolabis Norwood & Owen, 1846 (fossil)1881D. S. Young
A photograph of the species Apios tuberosa, not of this specimenApios tuberosa Moench1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1885Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Artemisia caudata, not of this specimenArtemisia caudata Michx.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
A photograph of the species Graminopassalora graminis, not of this specimenGraminopassalora graminis (Fuckel) U.Braun, C.Nakash., Videira & Crous1886William Trelease; A. CommonsMadison
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1886Wilkinson, E.Cedar Point
Apocynum sibiricum Jacq.1896Watson, J.R.North Ohio

All 2,185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spears Corners: 3 producers. All of them 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
Bauer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delhi PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mortensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Erie 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
Avery0.4 miles13
North Milan1.7 miles13
Milan2.6 miles13
Prout (historical)4.2 miles12
Kimball4.4 miles12
Bogart4.6 miles16
Columbus Park5.4 miles16
Shinrock5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067535. 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.