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

Lake View, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Berlin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43019. It stands on East Branch Kokosing River. The Survey maps it on the Fredericktown quadrangle.

Lake View within Knox County

Then and now

1915 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 51 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake View, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Lake View, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 county-history sources

8,876 words on this township

A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive; Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes .., published 1862; History of Knox County, Ohio, Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest; a Complete History of Knox County ... a Record of Its Soldiers in the Late War; Portraits of Its Early Settlers and Prominent Men ... Biographies and Histories of Pioneer Families, Etc, published 1881; History Knox County, Ohio, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Berlin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Berlin Township - 8,876 words.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 450 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 450 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lake View between 1837 and 1974: 402 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 7 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, A. P. Morgan, Andriessen, H. 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 Fusicladium Bonord.Fusicladium Bonord.1883W. A. Kellermann
Specimen of Pestalotia De Not., 1841Pestalotia De Not., 18411883W. A. KellermannNo locality on label
Specimen of Phyllosticta Pers., 1818Phyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1837MüllerOhio
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1863Turati (comte), Ercole
A photograph of the species Delphinium exaltatum, not of this specimenDelphinium exaltatum Aiton1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1877E Sheets
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1877not recordedunspecified
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1879Willard L. Maris
A photograph of the species Gallinula chloropus, not of this specimenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758)1879Porter, J.B.
A photograph of the species Lobelia inflata, not of this specimenLobelia inflata L.1881Andriessen, H.near Fredericktown, OH
A photograph of the species Ascochyta Lib., not of this specimenAscochyta Lib., 18301883Kellerman

All 450 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake View: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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
Fredericktown DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fredericktown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fredericktown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Knox 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
South Bay0.5 miles11
Fredericktown1.5 miles11
Ankenytown2.7 miles12
Knox2.9 miles11
Palmyra3.2 miles12
Batemantown4.1 miles12
Dorema4.2 miles11
Waterford5.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048893. 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.