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

Crystal Park, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Canton City. It lies in ZIP code area 44705. It stands on East Branch Nimishillen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canton East quadrangle.

Crystal Park within Stark County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Crystal Park, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Crystal Park, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the 1881 county history

968,817 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Canton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Canton Township - 968,817 words.

Fires nearby

2 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crystal Park between 2005 and 2005, burning about 31 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 burning	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
14 April 2005	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 295 shown

Museums hold 295 specimens collected within 10 miles of Crystal Park between 1836 and 1975: 242 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Pemphigus Hartig, 1839	1948	C. Mohr	Massillon
Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Carex intumescens Rudge	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1875	not recorded	No specific locality recorded.
Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	not recorded	Canton
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton

All 295 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 20 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Park: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 1 plant. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sulfur, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Canton Ohio Sulfur Plant	Sulfur	Producer
Ohio Ferro-Alloys/ Canton, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Sme Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Stark Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Motts and Dehoff Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Motts and Dehoff Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Stark Ceramics, Incorporated Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Stark County Mines	Clay	Producer
Suzie Strip Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Suzie Strip Mine Clay and Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trump	1.2 miles	17
Pleasant View	1.3 miles	17
Pleasant View Village	1.7 miles	17
Clear View Heights	1.7 miles	17
Lynn Center Park	1.8 miles	17
East Orchard	1.8 miles	17
Plain	1.9 miles	17
Canton	2.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057693. 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.