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Botzum, Ohio
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cuyahoga Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 44313. It stands on Woodward Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peninsula quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The 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.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
21 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Peninsula quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
86,643 words on this townshipHistory of Summit County, Ohio, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Cuyahoga Falls City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
* An anecdote of Stigwanish. the chief of these Indians. has been related to me. which seems to furnish evidence of somewhat higher moral perceptions than has always been ascribed tu untaught Indians. Stigwanish was friendly to the whites. and often visited the settlement at Hudson. It was at just about the time of the first settlement of Tallmadge that this chief was at the house of a Mr. Pease in Hudson. and. tu persuade a son of Mr. Pease. a child of some four or five years of age. to come and sit upon his lap, he offered to give him his pipe-hatchet. The offer proved sufficient to overcome the repugnance of the child to the swarthy face of Indian. As the chief was about to leave, the return of the hatchet was proffered. but resolutely refused. Stigwanish saying. -Musn't lie to children - no good. This native chief had scarcely learned this precept from the whites. however frequently. in his intercourse with them. he might have had illustrations of its truth. and he who obeyed it could seareely have been a savage. &. Pease. of Cuyahoga, was the recipient of the chiet's hatchet."
Passage source: History of Summit County, 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 Cuyahoga Falls City - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Botzum between 1993 and 2014, burning about 5 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | RIVERVIEW ROAD |
| 31 August 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | AKRONS |
| 30 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | RAILROAD |
| 13 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | BRUNTY |
| 22 June 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | ERDOS |
| 16 June 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | QUICK |
| 27 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | CANYON TRAIL |
| 2 April 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | PINEHOLLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 840 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 840 specimens collected within 10 miles of Botzum between 1867 and 1975: 728 Animalia, 64 Plantae, 47 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. Hall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum | 1888 | Wright, A.A. | Tallmadge. |
 | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1889 | Foltz, Kent O. | Sand Run Park; Akron |
 | Asclepias verticillata L. | 1889 | not recorded | Akron |
 | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1867 | Collector(s): James Lee Peters | Akron |
 | Empidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843) | 1877 | A. Hall | Cuyahoga |
 | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1880 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
 | Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1887 | B. Sanford | Hudson |
 | Hydrastis canadensis L. | 1888 | E.L. Sturtevant II | |
 | Lonicera dioica L. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Carex pensylvanica Lam. | 1889 | Foltz, K.O. | Akron |
 | Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein. | 1889 | Reade M. C. | Hudson |
All 840 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Botzum: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alden Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Herbruck Trucking Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Herbruck Trucking Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| J.P. Pollo Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| J.P. Pollo Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Robert E. Alden Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ira | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Northampton Center | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| West Steels Corners | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Cranmer | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Everett | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Fairlawn | 3.0 miles | 21 | |
| Ghent | 3.3 miles | 21 | |
| Bath Center | 3.3 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062404. 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.