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

Woodhill Homes, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cleveland City. It lies in ZIP code area 44104. The Survey maps it on the Shaker Heights quadrangle.

Woodhill Homes 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 Woodhill Homes, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Woodhill Homes, 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.

In the 1870 county history

23,212 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 Cleveland City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Cleveland City - 23,212 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 4,140 shown

Museums hold 4,140 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodhill Homes between 1849 and 1975: 3,716 Animalia, 215 Fungi, 130 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 incertae sedis. 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 Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 1895Brachysticha fidiae Ashmead, 18951894F. WebsterEuclid
Specimen of Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.Monilia sitophila (Mont.) Sacc.1894Seymour, Arthur BlissCleveland, O. [Ohio]
Specimen of Osmunda claytoniana L.Osmunda claytoniana L.1894Winkler, H.J.Cleveland.
A photograph of the species Setophaga americana, not of this specimenSetophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758)1849Jared P. KirtlandRockport
Boraginaceae1850not recordedCleveland.
A photograph of the species Carex canescens, not of this specimenCarex canescens L.1850Illegible collector nameCleveland.
A photograph of the species Catillaria tricolor, not of this specimenCatillaria tricolor (Lam.) Th.Fr.1854G. DixonCleveland, Bousdale Hill
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1854Robert KennicottCleveland
A photograph of the species Abrothallus parmeliarum, not of this specimenAbrothallus parmeliarum (Sommerf.) Nyl., 18691860Mudd Wm.Cleveland
A photograph of the species Thryothorus ludovicianus, not of this specimenThryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790)1860not recordedCleveland
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981871Collector(s): unknownCleveland
A photograph of the species Timmia megapolitana, not of this specimenTimmia megapolitana Hedw.1871E. N. Claassen

All 4,140 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 15 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Woodhill Homes: 10 unknowns, 4 producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Zirconium, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Tin, Lead. 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
(Facility) Hanna Nickel Smelter/ Cleveland, OhNickelPlant
Brush Wellman/ Cleveland, OhioBerylliumProducer
Cuyahoga Lime Company PlantCalciumProducer
Great Lakes-St Lawrence/ ClevelandFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Industrial Quartz/ Cleveland, OhioSilicaUnknown
Mcgean Chemical/ Cleveland, OhioAntimonyUnknown
Metallurgical Inc/ Cleveland, OhioIron, AluminumUnknown
N. L. IndustriesLeadUnknown
Ohio Carbon Cleveland PlantGraphiteUnknown
River Smelting & Ref./ ClevelandIron, Zinc, Copper, Tin, LeadProducer

Every working recorded in Cuyahoga 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
Ambler Heights0.8 miles14
Doans Corners1.0 miles14
Dutch Alley1.3 miles16
Little Italy1.5 miles14
Garden Valley1.6 miles16
Ludlow1.8 miles14
Euclid Heights1.8 miles14
Hough2.0 miles14

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 Q122542641The 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 1807061. 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.