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

York, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Townsend Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43410. The Survey maps it on the Clyde quadrangle.

York within Sandusky County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of York, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of York, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 616 shown

Museums hold 616 specimens collected within 10 miles of York between 1865 and 1975: 536 Animalia, 65 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Albiet, P. & Stone Lab Limnology Class, Anderson, J. (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 Alternaria crassa (Sacc.) RandsAlternaria crassa (Sacc.) Rands1915L.R. JonesClyde
Specimen of Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 1854Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 18541921Dr. J.H. BealLake Erie, Sandusky Bay, North America
Specimen of Athyrium angustum (Willd.) C.PreslAthyrium angustum (Willd.) C.Presl1969Jones, G.T.Damp deciduous woods after flood Townsend Twp., east od Whitmore.
A photograph of the species Hydroprogne caspia, not of this specimenHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770)1865Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1894not recordedSandusky River, mouth of
A photograph of the species Ictalurus punctatus, not of this specimenIctalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterNear mouth Sandusky River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Moxostoma Rafinesque, not of this specimenMoxostoma Rafinesque, 18201894C. RutterNear mouth Sandusky River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1894C. RutterNear mouth Sandusky River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammannia coccinea, not of this specimenAmmannia coccinea Rottb.1895Moseley, E.L.Presque Isle Point, Peninsula
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1895Moseley, E.L.Presque Isle Point, Sandusky Bay
Gloeosporium Desm. & Mont., 18491895W. MillerGypsum.
Lindernia dubia (L.) Pennell1895Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleySandusky Bay, Presque Isle Point

All 616 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 York: 2 past producers. 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
Kline Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Kline Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sandusky 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
Whitmore2.2 miles15
Vickery2.8 miles15
Wales Corners3.1 miles16
Teemes (historical)4.1 miles16
Sunset Harbor4.5 miles15
Bayshore4.7 miles15
Whites Landing4.9 miles15
Edgewater Estates5.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065737. 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.