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

Crossroads, Ohio

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

Crossroads 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 Crossroads, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Crossroads, 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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 2005 and 2018, burning about 2 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 burning2

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
16 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11645

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 210 shown

Museums hold 210 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crossroads between 1875 and 1975: 186 Animalia, 16 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Gloeosporium venetum Speg.Gloeosporium venetum Speg.1890J.T. Rice
Specimen of unnamed1907Bruce Fink
Specimen of Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872Catocala flebilis Grote, 18721940not recordedNavarre
A photograph of the species Theliderma metanevra, not of this specimenTheliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)1875Sterki, VictorBeach City
A photograph of the species Lanius borealis, not of this specimenLanius borealis borealis1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381889Harry C. OberholserPines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs

All 210 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 Crossroads: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northern Ohio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Creek0.5 miles18
North Brewster1.3 miles18
Harmon1.4 miles18
Pigeon Run1.5 miles18
Justus1.6 miles18
Park Heights1.9 miles18
Brewster1.9 miles18
Elton2.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039494. 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.