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Canfield, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Canfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44406. The Survey maps it on the Canfield quadrangle. 7,699 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Canfield within Mahoning County

Population over time

2 figures

Canfield grew from 7,515 to 7,699 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,515
20207,699+184 (+2%)

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canfield, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Canfield, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Canfield between 2019 and 2019, burning about 0 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
19 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15195

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 484 shown

Museums hold 484 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canfield between 1853 and 1974: 295 Animalia, 167 Plantae, 21 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A.E. Daugherty, Anderson, B. 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850Cottus bairdii Girard, 18501853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1853not recordedPoland, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191853C. KirtlandYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 484 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Canfield: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Afc PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Afc PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

31 since 1993

The National Weather Service names Canfield in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCanfield$250,000Thunderstorm downburst winds estimated at more than 60 mph caused a swath of damage from Canfield to Poland along the U.S. Highway 224. Dozens of trees, large limbs and utility poles were downed. Several thousand electric customers lost power during the storm, some for as many as 12 hours.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCanfield$200,000A thunderstorm downburst caused considerable damage in the Canfield and Boardman areas. Dozens of trees were downed along the U.S. Route 224 corridor. In Boardman, downed trees caused four roads to be closed and damaged three homes.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCanfield$100,000A line of severe thunderstorms moved across Mahoning County around daybreak and caused scattered power outages. Many trees were downed in Canfield and Youngstown.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCanfield$15,000The sheriff reported trees and powerlines down in Canfield.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCanfield$15,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous large trees across the county.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCanfield$12,000Thunderstorm winds brought down a tree on Burgett Lane in Canfield. Trees were also reported down at Indianola and Glenwood Roads on the southwest side of Youngstown, one of which fell on a car.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCanfield$10,000A large tree fell on to a car.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindCanfield$10,000A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts at 70 mph. Several large trees were downed along Summit Drive and Raccoon Road.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCanfield$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCanfield$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees near the intersection of State Route 46 and Highway 224.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCanfield$4,000Several trees were reported down.
July 2003HailCanfield$2,000Nickel size hail was observed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCanfield$1,000A few large limbs were reported down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCanfield-An anemometer in Canfield measured a peak straight-line convective wind gust of 61-mph from a thunderstorm.
May 2025HailCanfield-Hail up to half dollar-size in Canfield.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCanfield-Large tree limb downed in Canfield.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCanfield-Numerous trees downed in Canfield.
March 2020HailCanfield-Social media report of penny-size hail in Canfield.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCanfield-There was moderate to severe tree damage on the east side of Canfield. There was a picture on social media of this storm report.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCanfield-Law enforcement reported trees down blocking roads in Canfield.
June 2015HailCanfield-Hail the size of quarters was observed.
May 2014HailCanfield-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCanfield-Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
June 2008HailCanfield-Nickel size hail was observed.
April 2001HailCanfield-Dime size hail was reported.
April 2001HailCanfield-Dime size hail was reported.
September 1993Thunderstorm WindCanfield-Winds were estimated to 70 mph (61 knots) by the sheriff's department.
May 2019HailCanfield-no account filed
May 2019HailCanfield-no account filed
June 2008HailCanfield-no account filed
July 1995HailCanfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mahoning County

Newspapers printed here

0 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues, 0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

NewspaperPublished
The Mahoning Dispatch1877 to 1968

What the paper printed

4,742 words

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 3 issues spread across its run from 1908 to 1921, 4,742 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

IssuePaper Length
1908-10-30The Mahoning Dispatch1,589 words
1908-11-27The Mahoning Dispatch586 words
1921-09-30The Mahoning Dispatch2,567 words

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Herbert Corners1.3 miles13
Lynns Corners1.7 miles16
Dublin2.0 miles13
Misner Corners2.1 miles13
Marquis2.6 miles16
Starrs Corners2.6 miles16
Toots Corners3.2 miles16
Camp Park3.5 miles13

Elsewhere

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.

Wikipedia article on CanfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924946The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1038796. 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.