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Boston, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Boston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44264. It stands on Grannys Run. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle.

Boston within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Boston, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Boston, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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.

In the county-history sources

299 words on this township

Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Boston Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

its firet officers were Timothy Bishop, Andrew Johnson and Aai'on Miller, trustees; William Beers, clerk; Launcelot May, treasurer; Alfred Wolcott and Moses Cunningham, justices of the peace, and James Jordan, constable. More than 140 men of Boston township fought for the Union in the war of 1861-65, the most distinguished of whom was Colonel Arthur L. Conger. On July 4, 1889, Colonel and Mrs. Conger presented to Boston Town- .ship the fine soldiers' monument which stands in the village of Peninsula at its western border. Peninsula has an extensive flour-mill and, in the southern part of the village, a large stone-quaiTy of a fine-gi'ained, white .sand-stone, from which mill-stones are made. Boston has saw-mills and the great papermills of the Akron-Cleveland Paper Bag Company, the power for which is partly secured from a large dam thrown across the Cuyahoga River. Colonel A. L. Conger aaid Hon. S. P. Wolcott are the Boston citizens who have earned for themselves the greatest fame. At the present time Charles Peterson is clerk and E. B. Conger and N. B. Wise are justices of the peace.

Passage source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.

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 Boston Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Boston between 1993 and 2012, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
22 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkERDOS
16 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkQUICK
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
22 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkLEDGES
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
2 April 2001Natural2.0 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkPINEHOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 892 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 892 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boston between 1877 and 1973: 850 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, Adams J. M. R. 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
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1904W. WarnerCuyahoga Falls
Specimen of Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)Elliptio dilatatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedCry River
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis L.H.Bailey1892Werner, W.C.Cuyahoga Falls
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Summit, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedSilver Lake
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio

All 892 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Brandywine1.4 miles15
Peninsula1.6 miles21
Boston Heights2.5 miles15
Little York2.9 miles15
Sagamore Hills3.4 miles15
Northfield Center3.7 miles15
East Center4.0 miles16
Chittendens Corners4.1 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BostonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22695758The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064467. 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.