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

Brier Hill, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Youngstown City. It lies in ZIP code area 44510. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Youngstown quadrangle.

Brier Hill within Mahoning 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 Brier Hill, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Brier Hill, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Youngstown city, in the words of 1907.

1907, Youngstown City

First English Opposition

Samuel Argat. a young English sea captain from Virginia, who early in 161 3 was cruising off the coast of Maine, learning from the Indians of the presence of the French in that vicinity, attacked and destroyed the settlement of St. Sauveur. Soon after, on a second expediliou made under the authority of Sir Thomas Dale, governor of Virginia, he destroyed also that of Port Royal.

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Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brier Hill between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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	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
18 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15172

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 282 shown

Museums hold 282 specimens collected within 10 miles of Brier Hill between 1853 and 1974: 199 Animalia, 77 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, B Withers, B. West 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
Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	W. H. Olney	Poland
Eurytoma pater Girault, 1920	1915	W. Phillips	Youngstown
Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1853	not recorded	Poland, Yellow Creek
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
Etheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1853	C. Kirtland	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 282 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brier Hill: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Oakwood Billets/ Youngstown, Ohio	Aluminum	Producer
Standard Slag/ Struthers, Ohio	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Us Steel/ Youngstown, Ohio	Iron	Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning 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
Williamston	1.1 miles	16
North Side	1.2 miles	16
West Side	1.7 miles	16
Youngstown	1.8 miles	16
East Side	2.2 miles	16
Perkins Corners	2.6 miles	16
Thorn Hill	2.8 miles	13
Scienceville	2.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064489. 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.