Burton Station, 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
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Middlefield quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Middlefield quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Middlefield quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Middlefield quadrangle1:24000

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 1 fire within 5 miles of Burton Station 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
• Burton Lake
• Maple Grove
• Middlefield
• Popes Corners
• South Newbury

Every fire recorded in Geauga County

Museums hold 714 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burton Station between 1887 and 1975: 604 Animalia, 103 Plantae, 7 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 714 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The National Weather Service names Burton Station in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 1 tornado. 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 1056742. 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.

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.