Bixler, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 1994

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.

• 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:24000
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Bolivar quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bethlehem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Bixler (historical) between 2004 and 2020, burning about 28 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lake Sherman Village
• Banker Heights
• Battlesburg
• Navarre
• Rockville
• Fohl Village

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 100 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bixler (historical) between 1875 and 1975: 91 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Bruce Fink 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
	unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
	Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
	Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1875	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Epioblasma triquetra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Fusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
	Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1895	Sterki, Victor	Beach City

All 100 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Bixler (historical): 8 producers, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Stark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057580. 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.