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Summary for Biota
Although we found mention of Biota during our research, we really don't have any information about it.<1> Over time, we expect to discover additional information that will be added to our Gazetteer..
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Biota and then turned east". While Biota could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Biota as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Biota could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
Since confusion between is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Ontario community named Biota. |
| <2> | While Biota is in the Central Time Zone and observes daylight saving time, the area to the west is in the Eastern Standard Time Zone (EST) and does not.. |
| <3> | Longitude & latitude values may not be the geographic center of Biota, rather it may be a prominent intersection or the center of population, etc. It will vary depending on the source. |
| <4> | GPS Coordinates for Biota:
Decimal: 48.989, -90.3814
DDMMSS: 48° 59' 20", -90° 22' 53" |
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