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Cannons Mill, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43920. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle.

Cannons Mill within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cannons Mill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cannons Mill, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

38 since 1999

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Cannons Mill between 1999 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6346
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKITCHEL AVE. NEAR NEWELL
4 May 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEWELL
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1090

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 616 shown

Museums hold 616 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cannons Mill between 1895 and 1975: 370 Animalia, 224 Plantae, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Peyron, Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901E. WilliamsonMiddle fork Little Beaver, Mahominy County, Ohio
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson

All 616 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Cannons Mill: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Landsberry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Globe Number 1 MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Globe Refractories, Inc.ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms nearby

4 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Cannons Mill in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCannons Mill$10,000Trees were reported down west of Route 30.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCannons Mill$5,000The 911 Call Center reported trees down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCannons Mill$3,000Several trees were snapped or uprooted, and a large number of limbs were snapped off.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCannons Mill$2,000Several trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glenmoor1.3 miles22
Santa Clara Estates1.7 miles22
Calcutta1.9 miles22
Sprucevale2.3 miles22
La Croft2.6 miles22
Rock Camp2.9 miles20
Williamsport3.2 miles20
Campus3.3 miles20

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 Cannons MillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133617The 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 1052137. 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.