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

Burghill, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44404. The Survey maps it on the Orangeville quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Burghill within Trumbull County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burghill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Burghill, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 111 shown

Museums hold 111 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burghill between 1893 and 1973: 79 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred, Chamberlin, Earl 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 Gymnoconia peckiana (Howe) TrotterGymnoconia peckiana (Howe) Trotter1910E.B.Johnston
A photograph of the species Saxifraga virginiensis, not of this specimenSaxifraga virginiensis Michx.1893Chamberlin, EarlCortland
A photograph of the species Perlesta decipiens, not of this specimenPerlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnFowlerville
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1917not recordedKinsman
A photograph of the species Ameiurus nebulosus, not of this specimenAmeiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus nebulosus, not of this specimenIctalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis Rafinesque, not of this specimenLepomis Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstPymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
A photograph of the species Lepomis gibbosus, not of this specimenLepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Pymatuning Creek, at Kinsman, ~0.1 mi S of Kinsman, Kinsman township

All 111 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burghill: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vernon Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Trumbull County

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Burghill in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011HailBurghill$100,000A supercell thunderstorm produced hail the size of hen eggs. Numerous vehicles and homes sustained damage as a result of the large hail.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vernon1.9 miles12
Antietam (historical)2.4 miles13
Latimer2.6 miles13
Orangeville3.0 miles13
Superior (historical)3.2 miles12
Hartford3.3 miles13
Corinth4.0 miles12
Five Points4.2 miles13

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 BurghillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4998645The 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 1060908. 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.

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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.