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Great Black Swamp

Index Great Black Swamp

The Great Black Swamp (also known simply as the Black Swamp), was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio and extreme northeast Indiana, United States, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. [1]

58 relations: Auglaize County, Ohio, Beech, Bowling Green, Ohio, Corduroy road, Deciduous, Deserts and xeric shrublands, Drainage basin, Elm, Endemic (epidemiology), Farm, Findlay, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fraxinus, Fremont, Ohio, Glacier, Hickory, Holocene, Indiana, Indianapolis, Inundation, James B. Hill, Lake Erie, Lake Maumee, Limberlost Swamp, Liriodendron, Malaria, Maple, Marsh, Maumee River, Maumee Road Lands, Mesic habitat, Michigan, Moraine, Mosquito, North Star, Ohio, Northern Indiana, Northwest Ohio, Oak, Ohio, Ohio History Connection, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Perrysburg, Ohio, Pinophyta, Platanus occidentalis, Populus sect. Aigeiros, Port Clinton, Ohio, Portage River (Ohio), Prairie, Proglacial lake, Rail transport, ..., Swamp, Tile drainage, Tilia americana, Toledo War, United States, Wetland, William J. Mitsch, Wisconsin glaciation. Expand index (8 more) »

Auglaize County, Ohio

Auglaize County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Bowling Green, Ohio

Bowling Green is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, Ohio, United States, located 20 miles southwest of Toledo.

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Corduroy road

A corduroy road or log road is a type of road made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Deserts and xeric shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome characterized by receiving only a small amount of moisture, usually defined as less than 250 mm of annual precipitation.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae.

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Endemic (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic (from Greek ἐν en "in, within" and δῆμος demos "people") in a population when that infection is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without external inputs.

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Farm

A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.

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Findlay, Ohio

Findlay is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Ohio, United States.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Allen County, United States.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.

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Fremont, Ohio

Fremont (formerly Lower Sandusky) is a city in and the county seat of Sandusky County, Ohio, United States, located about 40 miles from Toledo.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Hickory

Hickory is a type of tree, comprising the genus Carya (κάρυον, káryon, meaning "nut").

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Inundation

Inundation (from the Latin inundatio, flood) is both the act of intentionally flooding land that would otherwise remain dry, for military, agricultural, or river-management purposes, and the result of such an act.

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James B. Hill

James B. Hill (born November 29, 1856, near Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, died in 1945 in Raceland, Louisiana) was an American inventor.

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Lake Erie

Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.

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Lake Maumee

Lake Maumee was a proglacial lake and an ancestor of present-day Lake Erie.

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Limberlost Swamp

The Limberlost Swamp in the eastern part of the present-day U.S. state of Indiana was a large, nationally known wetlands region with streams that flowed into the Wabash River.

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Liriodendron

Liriodendron is a genus of two species of characteristically large deciduous trees in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.

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Marsh

A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.

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Maumee River

The Maumee River (pronounced) (Shawnee: Hotaawathiipi; Miami-Illinois: Taawaawa siipiiw) is a river running from northeastern Indiana into northwestern Ohio and Lake Erie in the United States.

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Maumee Road Lands

Maumee Road Lands were a group of land tracts granted by the United States Congress to the state of Ohio in 1823 along the path of a proposed road in the northwest corner of the state.

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Mesic habitat

In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a moderate or well-balanced supply of moisture, e.g., a mesic forest, a temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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North Star, Ohio

North Star is a village in Darke County, Ohio, United States.

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Northern Indiana

Northern Indiana is a region of the U.S. State of Indiana, including 26 counties which border the states of Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio.

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Northwest Ohio

Northwest or northwestern Ohio consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the United States state of Ohio.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Ohio History Connection

Ohio History Connection is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1885 as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society "to promote a knowledge of archaeology and history, especially in Ohio".

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Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in Ohio.

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Perrysburg, Ohio

Perrysburg is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States, along the south side of the Maumee River.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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Platanus occidentalis

Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to North America.

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Populus sect. Aigeiros

Populus section Aigeiros is a section of three species in the genus Populus, the poplars.

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Port Clinton, Ohio

Port Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, about 44 miles east of Toledo.

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Portage River (Ohio)

Approximately U.S. Geological Survey.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Proglacial lake

In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Swamp

A swamp is a wetland that is forested.

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Tile drainage

In agriculture, tile drainage is a type of drainage system that removes excess water from soil below the surface.

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Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the Malvaceae family, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.

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Toledo War

The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War, was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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William J. Mitsch

William Mitsch, born March 29, 1947 in Wheeling, West Virginia USA, is an ecosystem ecologist and ecological engineer who was co-laureate of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize in August 2004 as a result of a career in wetland ecology and restoration, ecological engineering, and ecological modelling.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Black_Swamp

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