Burton Lake, Ohio

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, in the words of 1880.

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Burton Lake between 2019 and 2020, burning about 4 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:

• Maple Grove
• Popes Corners
• Welshfield
• Auburn Corners
• Burton
• Burton Station

Every fire recorded in Geauga County

Museums hold 2,252 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burton Lake between 1887 and 1975: 2,143 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, Andre F. Clewell 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 2,252 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Burton Lake: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048571. 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.