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

Woodlyn Acres, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greenwich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44837. The Survey maps it on the New London quadrangle.

Woodlyn Acres within Huron County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Woodlyn Acres, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Woodlyn Acres, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1896 county history

2,166 words on this township

The county history of 1896 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Greenwich Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Greenwich Township - 2,166 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Woodlyn Acres between 2020 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15782

Every fire recorded in Huron County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 570 shown

Museums hold 570 specimens collected within 10 miles of Woodlyn Acres between 1895 and 1975: 414 Plantae, 85 Animalia, 70 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. E. Jennings, Collector(s): M. Martin, D. R. Sumstine 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 Puccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & SwinglePuccinia schedonnardi Kellerm. & Swingle1895Dr. W.A. KellermanReservoir Park; 41.024222 -82.515171
A photograph of the species Aecidium hibisciatum, not of this specimenAecidium hibisciatum (Schwein.) Sacc.1895W. A. KellermanReservoir Park
A photograph of the species Solidago flexicaulis, not of this specimenSolidago flexicaulis L.1897Jennings, O.E.near Olena
A photograph of the species Acalypha rhomboidea, not of this specimenAcalypha rhomboidea Raf.1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
A photograph of the species Acer rubrum, not of this specimenAcer rubrum L.1898Jennings, O.E.Olena
A photograph of the species Acer saccharinum, not of this specimenAcer saccharinum L.1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
A photograph of the species Acer saccharum, not of this specimenAcer saccharum Marshall1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
A photograph of the species Achillea millefolium, not of this specimenAchillea millefolium subsp. millefolium1898Jennings, O.E.Dooryard near Olena, O
A photograph of the species Actaea pachypoda, not of this specimenActaea pachypoda Elliott1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
A photograph of the species Adiantum pedatum, not of this specimenAdiantum pedatum L.1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
Aesculus glabra Willd.1898Jennings, O.E.near Olena
Agrimonia pubescens Wallr.1898Jennings, O.E.Olena

All 570 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodlyn Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Acme Paving and Sealing Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
BiglowClayProducer

Every working recorded in Huron 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
Greenwich3.6 miles13
New London4.5 miles12
Fitchville4.9 miles12
Delphi8.5 miles13
Boughtonville8.8 miles13
Olena9.8 miles12
Branchwood Estates10.0 miles13
North Fairfield10.0 miles13

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 Q122596500The 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 2514849. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.