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Copley, Ohio
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Copley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44321. The Survey maps it on the Wadsworth quadrangle.
Then and now
1903 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1903 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
18 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1903 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
227 words on this townshipCentennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Copley Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Copky Township came to us from Medina County when our county was created in 1840. It is well watered by Pigeon Creek, Wolf Creek and Chocolog Creek, besides having within its confines AMiite Pond, Black Pond and Chocolog Pond. Formerly a great swamp called Copley Swamp occupied a large part of it, but by judicious draining it has been reduced to an insignificant area. It Ls now one vast garden - the old peat and muck beds furnishing the best kind of soil for raising celery, onions, etc. In early times it was the great game preserve of the whole region. Copley was first settled in 1814 by Jonah Turner, who came from Pennsylvania. Six additional families arrived during the next five years. It was set apart as a township of Medina County in 1819, and was named Greenfield at first by Garner Green, who origi- nally owned a large part of ite territory. He afterwards changed the name to Copley, the maiden name of his wife. When the Northern Ohio Railroad was built, in 1891, it gave Copley an outlet, and was the means of starting a new hamlet - Fairlawn, which now boasts a mill, general store, smithy, etc. Copley sent nearly 150 men into the Union Army. Homer G. Long is now township clerk and C. C. Frederick is justice of the peace.
Passage source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 760 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 760 specimens collected within 10 miles of Copley between 1867 and 1975: 659 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1889 | Foltz, Kent O. | Sand Run Park; Akron |
 | Asclepias verticillata L. | 1889 | not recorded | Akron |
 | Osmunda cinnamomea L. | 1890 | Kofoid, C.A. | Akron. |
 | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1867 | Collector(s): James Lee Peters | Akron |
 | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1880 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
 | Hydrastis canadensis L. | 1888 | E.L. Sturtevant II | |
 | Lonicera dioica L. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Carex pensylvanica Lam. | 1889 | Foltz, K.O. | Akron |
 | Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott | 1889 | Foltz, Kent O. | Akron; Blue Pond |
 | Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer | 1889 | K. O. Foltz | Copley Swamp, near Akron |
 | Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt | 1890 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
All 760 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Copley: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Empire Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Empire Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Flesher Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Flesher Plant No. 2 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hammond Brothers Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copley in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $5,000 | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $2,000 | Police reported large tree limbs down from Copley to Richfield. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Copley | $2,000 | A weak tornado touched down briefly near Copley causing some minor roof damage. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $1,000 | Miscellaneous tree damage reported on the west side of Akron and in surrounding suburbs, including Barberton and Fairlawn. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree near the intersection of State Routes 21 and 162. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Copley | - | Hail up to penny-size in Pigeon Creek. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | - | Several six-inch diameter tree limbs snapped in Pigeon Creek. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Copley | - | Tweet with picture showing several trees down in Copley. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Copley | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Copley | - | Penny sized hail was observed. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Copley | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| September 1998 | Hail | Copley | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Copley | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Copley | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pigeon Creek | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Paxton | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Copley Junction | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Montrose | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Fairlawn | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Stoney Hill | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Bates Corners | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Maple Valley | 4.1 miles | 22 |
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 Copley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22695760 | The 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 1056837. 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.
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.