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

Bixler, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bethlehem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44612. It stands on Studer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bolivar quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bixler within Stark County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Bixler (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Bixler (historical), surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

358,609 words on this township

History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Bethlehem Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

A. C. Shriver started a carriage factory about ten yeare ago. He employed about eight men, and, it is said, manufactured as high as 100 caiTiages a year. A few y(>ars after the village was laid out, Moses Penuock began a gi>neral wool-carding and cloth-ch'essing business in the village. This was continued by him, to a greater or less extent, for twenty or twenty-five years. He finally sold to Peter and George Wise, and they sold to Eli Hoover, upon whose hands it ran down. A few yeai's ago, George Begs built a distillery a short distance from town. He manu factured grape wine and apple-jack. G. "W. Carr made nearly 3,000 baiTels of cider last year. The village has no saloon, and no liquor is sold excejit for medicinal ]mr[)Oses.

Passage source: History of Stark County, with an Outline Sketch of Ohio, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bethlehem Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

12 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bixler (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 17 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 burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8606
9 April 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 April 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1002
17 April 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	724
6 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 100 shown

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.

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bixler (historical): 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Hawk Mine	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
County Line Sr 212 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Navarre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Bolivar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rockville	1.9 miles	18
Smoketown	2.5 miles	18
Lake Sherman Village	3.5 miles	16
Navarre	4.3 miles	18
Harmon	4.7 miles	18
Tarrymore	4.8 miles	18
Navarre Village	4.8 miles	18
Beach City	4.8 miles	18

Provenance

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.