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

Westwood Farms, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Strongsville City. It lies in ZIP code area 44149. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Westwood Farms within Cuyahoga County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westwood Farms, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westwood Farms, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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.

In the 1870 county history

6,580 words on this township

The county history of 1870 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Strongsville City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Strongsville City - 6,580 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 741 shown

Museums hold 741 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westwood Farms between 1885 and 1975: 683 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 14 Fungi, 4 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Woolman, Allen, John 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 Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) LinkCamptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link1895Ashcraft, G.B.Berea
Specimen of Irpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) MurrillIrpiciporus lacteus (Fr.) Murrill1895F. D. KelseyBerea.
Specimen of Lindera benzoin (L.) BlumeLindera benzoin (L.) Blume1895L.D. StairBerea
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885William DoertenbachBrooklyn
A photograph of the species Betula populifolia, not of this specimenBetula populifolia Marshall1891Henry C. CowlesKensington, Ct.
A photograph of the species Pteridium aquilinum, not of this specimenPteridium aquilinum subsp. latiusculum (Desv.) Hultén ex R.T.Clausen1891George B. AshcroftOhio, dry hills near Berea
A photograph of the species Erimyzon sucetta, not of this specimenErimyzon sucetta (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypentelium nigricans, not of this specimenHypentelium nigricans (Lesueur, 1817)1893A. WoolmanRocky River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191893WoolmanRocky River, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893A. WoolmanRocky River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lithobates clamitans, not of this specimenLithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River
A photograph of the species Lithobates palustris, not of this specimenLithobates palustris (LeConte, 1825)1893not recordedOlmsted Falls, Rocky River

All 741 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
Vigil0.3 miles23
Strongsville1.5 miles23
Binola1.6 miles23
Waterford Crossing2.4 miles23
Berea3.1 miles23
West View3.4 miles20
Middleburg Heights3.8 miles23
Olmsted Falls4.4 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122553161The 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 1960822. 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.