Cairo, Ohio

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.

1901 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.

• 1901 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Hartville quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Plain Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cairo between 2002 and 2005, burning about 30 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:

• Diamond (historical)
• Middlebranch
• Oval City
• Belfort
• Canton
• Canton Gardens

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 369 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cairo between 1836 and 1975: 305 Animalia, 52 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, A.M. Rogers, Allen, John 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
	unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
	Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
	Carex intumescens Rudge	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
	Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1875	not recorded	No specific locality recorded.
	Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	not recorded	Canton
	Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
	Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton

All 369 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cairo: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.

Every working recorded in Stark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cairo in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 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.

Every storm recorded in Stark 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 1038607. 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.