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Delightful, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Southington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44470. The Survey maps it on the Southington quadrangle.

Delightful within Trumbull County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delightful, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Delightful, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Delightful between 2019 and 2019, burning about 16 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15316
23 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15315
21 June 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15314
8 April 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15312
13 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15313
20 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15310

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 281 shown

Museums hold 281 specimens collected within 10 miles of Delightful between 1890 and 1975: 236 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, 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 Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Pleosphaerulina briosiana PollacciPleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci1927F.R. Jones; J.J. DavisNewton
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1928Rood, Almon N.Braceville Tp.,
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1890Dean, G WNewton Falls, mill pond
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Guignardia bidwellii, not of this specimenGuignardia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Plasmopara viticola, not of this specimenPlasmopara viticola (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Berl. & De Toni1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1905Spencer, L. G.
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1905Spencer L. G.Trumbull Co.
A photograph of the species Poa alsodes, not of this specimenPoa alsodes A.Gray1907Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.Braceville Twp

All 281 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Delightful: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Warren Works--General RefractoriesFire Clay (Refractory)Plant

Every working recorded in Trumbull 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
State Road1.7 miles12
Southington2.2 miles12
Southington Estates2.3 miles12
Shihold2.4 miles12
Phalanx3.3 miles12
Hardscrabble3.5 miles14
Leavittsburg3.7 miles13
Stroups3.7 miles12

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 DelightfulAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24896907The 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 1064523. 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.