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

Bentley, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brookfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44438. It stands on Little Yankee Run. The Survey maps it on the Sharon West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bentley within Trumbull County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bentley (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bentley (historical), surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bentley (historical) between 2019 and 2019, burning about 0 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
Debris and open burning1

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
24 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 66 shown

Museums hold 66 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bentley (historical) between 1899 and 1975: 37 Animalia, 29 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred 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
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1925Lyle D. MillerHubbard
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1928Lyle D. MillerHubbard
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asst.Small trib of the Shenango River, Hubbard Twp.
A photograph of the species Culaea inconstans, not of this specimenCulaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus nebulosus, not of this specimenIctalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Micropterus salmoides, not of this specimenMicropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township

All 66 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bentley (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Sharon Steel/ Hubbard, OhioIronProducer

Every working recorded in Trumbull 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
Masury0.8 miles15
Petroleum1.0 miles15
Salow Corners1.4 miles15
West Hill1.6 miles15
Yankee Hills2.2 miles15
Walnut Hill (historical)2.5 miles15
Brookfield Center2.9 miles15
Brookfield3.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061993. 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.