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

Sunnyside, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brownhelm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44089. It stands on Brownhelm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vermilion East quadrangle.

Sunnyside within Lorain County

Then and now

1903 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 973 shown

Museums hold 973 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sunnyside between 1880 and 1975: 524 Animalia, 357 Fungi, 82 Plantae, 8 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. A. Wright, A. E. Ricksecker 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 Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst.1896F. D. KelseyOberlin.
Specimen of Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) MurrillGloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill1899A. A. WrightOberlin.
Specimen of Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.1899A. E. RickseckerN. of Oberlin
A photograph of the species Charadrius semipalmatus, not of this specimenCharadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 18251880McCormick, L. M.Beaver Creek, Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1883not recordedBlack River, Lorain, Ohio
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1885McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica striata, not of this specimenDendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772)1885McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza melodia, not of this specimenMelospiza melodia euphonia Wetmore, 19361885McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris melanotos, not of this specimenCalidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)1886McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1886McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Scolecophagus Swainson, not of this specimenScolecophagus Swainson, 18321886McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Vireo flavifrons, not of this specimenVireo flavifrons Vieillot, 18081886McCormick, L. M.Lorain, Ohio, USA

All 973 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. 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
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, FlagstoneProducer
Finnegan QuarryStoneProducer
Birmingham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cleveland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lorain 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
Vermilion-on-the-Lake0.8 miles14
Brownhelm Station1.3 miles14
Elberta Beach1.6 miles14
Brownhelm2.7 miles14
Rugby (historical)3.0 miles14
Oakpoint (historical)3.4 miles15
Beaver Park3.5 miles15
Kendeigh Corner4.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049233. 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.