Burton, Ohio

Burton fell from 1,455 to 1,407 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1994

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.

• 1905 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1966 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Burton quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Burton township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, with Sketches of Some of the Pioneers and Prominent Men, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Burton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Burton 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Burton Lake
• Burton Station
• Maple Grove
• Middlefield
• Popes Corners
• South Newbury

Every fire recorded in Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 729 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burton between 1887 and 1975: 617 Animalia, 104 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, A. N. Rood, A.E. Daugherty 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
	Riparia riparia riparia (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	Fred Haggart
	Medeola virginiana L.	1895	Watson,J.R. s.n. [1895-06-30]	[label: Herbarium of J.R. Watson, Berea, O.] Geauga Co. [County]
	Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.	1896	Edo N. Claassen	Thompson Ledges
	Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray	1887	Leonard, F.E.	Munson
	Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1889	Collector(s): F. S. Haggart	No specific locality recorded.
	Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.	1890	M. Rodman	Sugar Grove.
	Cypripedium reginae Walter	1896	J. R. Watson	Geauga
	Stachys cordata Riddell	1896	Guttenberg, G.	Burton
	Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.	1897	J. R. Watson	Munson
	Ranunculaceae	1897	Ashcroft, G.B.	Munson O.
	Sarracenia purpurea L.	1897	J. R. Watson	Geauga
	Acronicta dactylina Grote, 1874	1908	Teraguchi, S. (Sonja)	OH Geauga Co. Troy Twp. Snow Lake

All 729 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Burton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Geauga County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burton in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Geauga County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048570. 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.

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.