BlockTrinity, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Avon City. It lies in ZIP code area 44011. It lies near North Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Avon quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Then and now
1901 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1901 against another survey:
On record in Trinity
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
William E. Hurst Houselisted 1974 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Oberlin quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Avon quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
13,604 words on this townshipHistory of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Avon City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Mr. Joseph Schwartz lived with his father until the hitter's death, in the year 1870; his mother having died in July, 1858. He married Catharine, daughter of Peter Kraus. This marriage left eight children, seven sous and one daughter, all living. Still living on the
Passage source: History of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879.
"My father, John Schwartz, came with my mother. Catliarino, from Bavaria, Germany, in 1833. Their young family consisted of five children, namely: Jose])li, Anna, Mary, Catharine and Frederick. Jly father settled on section thirty-three, in Avon, on the 34th of December, 1833. Two other persons, both heads of families, accompanied him, by name, Jacob Miller and Paul Faber. These were the first and only (Jerman settlors that I know of in Avon until 1840, when my uncle, Peter Schwartz, came in with a family of seven persons. Then German settlers came flocking in. In 1844, Trinity church was built in East Avon."'
Passage source: History of Lorain County, Ohio, published 1879.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,283 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Trinity (historical) between 1853 and 1975: 972 Animalia, 267 Fungi, 32 Plantae, 8 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Coniophora byssoides (Pers.) P.Karst. | 1896 | F. D. Kelsey | Oberlin. |
 | Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.) Murrill | 1899 | A. A. Wright | Oberlin. |
 | Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr. | 1899 | A. E. Ricksecker | N. of Oberlin |
 | Ammocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863) | 1853 | Baird, Spencer Fullerton | Black River, below falls at Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819 | 1853 | S. Baird | Black River Elgria Ohio (above falls) |
 | Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
 | Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840 | 1853 | S. Baird | Elyria, Ohio |
| Aecidium nesaeae W.R.Gerard | 1894 | Kelsey, F.D. | Lorain County, Ohio | |
 | Ammodramus savannarum pratensis (Vieillot, 1818) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Oberlin Field W of Athletic Park, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
 | Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwägr. | 1894 | F. D. Kelsey | |
| Carpodacus purpureus purpureus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA | |
| Catharus ustulatus (Nuttall, 1840) | 1894 | Jones, L. (Lynds) | Morgan's Woods, NW Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, USA |
All 1,283 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon Center | 1.3 miles | 16 | |
| Avon | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Folger (historical) | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| North Ridgeville | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Crandall | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Avon Lake | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Avon Point | 4.6 miles | 7 | |
| Beech Park | 4.6 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058935. 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.
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