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Warrensville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Highland Hills Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44128. The Survey maps it on the Shaker Heights quadrangle.

Warrensville within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Warrensville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Warrensville, 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 2,669 shown

Museums hold 2,669 specimens collected within 10 miles of Warrensville between 1854 and 1975: 2,485 Animalia, 86 Plantae, 59 Protozoa, 37 Fungi, 1 incertae sedis, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall 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 Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1897Winkler, H.J.Woods, Cleveland.
Specimen of Claytonia virginica L.Claytonia virginica L.1897Watson,J.R. s.n. [1897-04][label: North Ohio Flora. J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Cuyahoga Co.
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Dendroica caerulescens, not of this specimenDendroica caerulescens caerulescens (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica fusca, not of this specimenDendroica fusca (Statius Müller, 1776)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Dendroica striata, not of this specimenDendroica striata (J.R.Forster, 1772)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Seiurus aurocapilla, not of this specimenSeiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766)1876A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1877A. Hallunspecified
A photograph of the species Betula L., not of this specimenBetula L.1888JasliafroCleveland; Lake View
A photograph of the species Cryptotaenia canadensis, not of this specimenCryptotaenia canadensis (L.) DC.1890R. H. IngrahamMiles

All 2,669 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Highland Hills0.4 miles14
North Randall0.7 miles14
Warrensville Heights1.1 miles14
Randall1.3 miles14
Beachwood1.6 miles14
Bedford Heights1.8 miles14
Orange2.0 miles17
North Solon2.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062591. 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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