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

Camp Creek, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Tuscarawas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44662. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle.

Camp Creek within Stark County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Camp Creek, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Camp Creek, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

In the 1881 county history

818 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Tuscarawas Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Tuscarawas Township - 818 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Camp Creek between 2005 and 2005, 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 217 shown

Museums hold 217 specimens collected within 10 miles of Camp Creek between 1875 and 1975: 188 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1875	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
Lanius borealis borealis	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Pines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Icterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs

All 217 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Camp Creek: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northern Ohio Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Crossroads	0.5 miles	18
Pigeon Run	1.0 miles	18
North Brewster	1.6 miles	18
Harmon	1.9 miles	18
Justus	2.1 miles	18
Park Heights	2.3 miles	18
Elton	2.3 miles	18
Brewster	2.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1038683. 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.