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

Burton City, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Baughman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44667. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle.

Burton City within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burton City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Burton City, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 264 shown

Museums hold 264 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burton City between 1883 and 1975: 232 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, Bruce, J. A., Bruce, W. A. 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
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Lasmigona complanata, not of this specimenLasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1891Selby A. D.Wayne Co.
A photograph of the species Chaetura pelagica, not of this specimenChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Passer domesticus, not of this specimenPasser domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)1893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA

All 264 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burton City: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orrville Tile Co PitClayProducer
Rupp Construction Marshallville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

2 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Burton City in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2002: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2002HailBurton City$10,000Quarter size hail was observed.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBurton City$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Orrville3.2 miles15
Dalton3.2 miles17
Marshall Estates3.8 miles17
Little Chippewa Estates3.8 miles15
Auburn Estates3.8 miles15
McQuaid (historical)4.0 miles17
Marshallville4.3 miles17
Whispering Pines Estates4.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060912. 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.