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

Standardsburg, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ridgefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44847. It stands on Slate Run. The Survey maps it on the Monroeville quadrangle.

Standardsburg within Huron County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Standardsburg, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Standardsburg, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1896 county history

2,210 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ridgefield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ridgefield Township - 2,210 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 819 shown

Museums hold 819 specimens collected within 10 miles of Standardsburg between 1893 and 1975: 441 Plantae, 314 Animalia, 63 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, B Zahuranec & party, Baumgartner, L. 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 Rumex verticillatus L.Rumex verticillatus L.1896Stair, L. D.
Specimen of Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)Enallagma exsulans (Hagen, 1861)1898[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1893Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyMilan, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893not recordedOhio, Monroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Lithobates pipiens, not of this specimenLithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782)1893not recordedMonroeville, Huron River
A photograph of the species Notropis whipplei, not of this specimenNotropis whipplei (Girard, 1856)1893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanOhio, Huron River, Monroeville
A photograph of the species Bidens laevis, not of this specimenBidens laevis (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1894Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyHuron River, Milan

All 819 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Standardsburg: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Price Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Price Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Huron 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
Monroeville1.9 miles12
Pontiac2.2 miles12
Hunts Corners2.9 miles12
Peru4.7 miles12
Norwalk5.0 miles12
Key Estates5.1 miles13
Bismarck5.7 miles12
Havana6.0 miles12

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 Q122549149The 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 1065373. 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.