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

Wayne, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44093. The Survey maps it on the Cherry Valley quadrangle.

Wayne within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wayne, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Wayne, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 88 shown

Museums hold 88 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wayne between 1891 and 1974: 70 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bogue, E.E., C. B. Hellquist, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 Calicium quercinum Pers.Calicium quercinum Pers.1895Ernst E. Bogue
Specimen of Schizophyllum commune Fr.Schizophyllum commune Fr.1896F. D. KelseyWilliamsfield.; 41.533387 -80.570629
A photograph of the species Bacidia luteola, not of this specimenBacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd1891E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Calicium lenticulare, not of this specimenCalicium lenticulare Ach.1895E. E. BogueWayne
Cetraria lacunosa Ach.1895E. E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
A photograph of the species Melanohalea olivacea, not of this specimenMelanohalea olivacea (L.) O.Blanco, A.Crespo, Divakar, Essl., D.Hawksw. & Lumbsch1895Bogue, E.E.Wayne
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1895Geo W. DeanWayne
Araneae1901G.W. Peckham
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Pymatuning Creek, near Wick, ~5.4 mi NE of Gustavus, Wayne township

All 88 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wayne: 1 unknown. None of them 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
Kinsman S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ashtabula County

Storms nearby

4 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Wayne in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2017Thunderstorm WindWayne$200,000Thunderstorm downbursts winds estimated to be at least 70 mph leveled two barns on Cream Ridge and a third on Creek Road just north of Ford Road. Trees in the area were also downed. The parent thunderstorms responsible for this damage also produced the EF2 tornado at Williamsfield.
June 2009HailWayne$75,000Golf ball size hail was observed.
June 2009HailWayne$30,000Golf ball size hail was observed.
July 2003Funnel CloudWayne-A funnel cloud was observed by law enforcement officials along State Route 11 in Wayne Township. No touchdown or damage occurred.

Every storm recorded in Ashtabula 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
Wick1.0 miles17
West Williamsfield3.1 miles18
Mann4.2 miles17
Cherry Valley5.0 miles17
Williamsfield5.1 miles18
Colebrook5.1 miles13
West Andover5.8 miles18
South New Lyme6.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056563. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.