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

West Mecca, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mecca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44410. The Survey maps it on the Bristolville quadrangle. It stands 3,018 feet above sea level.

West Mecca within Trumbull 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 West Mecca, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of West Mecca, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 188 shown

Museums hold 188 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Mecca between 1893 and 1975: 172 Animalia, 11 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bednarik, K. (Karl), Brown, Fred 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1905Spencer L. G.Trumbull Co.
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1915not recordedNo Further Locality Data

All 188 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2020

The National Weather Service names West Mecca in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Mecca-Tree down near intersection of County Routes 242 and 263 ESE of Bristolville. Another tree down along North Park Avenue in Bristolville. Yet another tree down at intersection of York Street and Chaffee Dodgeville Road in Greene Township.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Mecca2.1 miles12
Deacon Creek Corner3.0 miles13
Wildare3.4 miles14
Spokane3.9 miles13
Oakfield4.1 miles13
Klondike4.2 miles14
Bristolville4.9 miles13
Cortland4.9 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.

Wikipedia article on West MeccaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22401308The 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 1061744. 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.

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.