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

Chittendens Corners, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Boston Heights Village. It lies in ZIP code area 44236. The Survey maps it on the Hudson quadrangle.

Chittendens Corners within Summit County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Chittendens Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Chittendens Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

12 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Chittendens Corners between 1993 and 2012, burning about 6 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Natural3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
16 June 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkQUICK
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
22 May 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkLEDGES
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
5 April 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkGOOD
2 April 2001Natural2.0 acresCuyahoga Valley National ParkPINEHOLLOW
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 905 shown

Museums hold 905 specimens collected within 10 miles of Chittendens Corners between 1877 and 1973: 848 Animalia, 43 Plantae, 14 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, A. Woolman 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 Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianumBotrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum1888Wright, A.A.Tallmadge.
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis L.H.Bailey1892Werner, W.C.Cuyahoga Falls
A photograph of the species Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1892Clark, D.Cuyahoga Falls Ave., Akron, Summit Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Summit, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedSilver Lake

All 905 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chittendens Corners: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Herms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Herms PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hudson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Northern Ohio Materials Hudson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Summit 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
Highland Springs2.4 miles15
Boston Heights2.5 miles15
Hudson2.9 miles14
Metz3.1 miles14
Peninsula3.2 miles21
Bosworth (historical)3.4 miles15
Darrowville3.5 miles14
East Steels Corners3.6 miles21

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.

Wikidata item Q122558125The 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 1062445. 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.