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Diamond, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Palmyra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44412. The Survey maps it on the Deerfield quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Diamond within Portage 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 Diamond, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Diamond, 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.

In the county-history sources

5,036 words on this township

History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Palmyra Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

A good deal of fine stock is raised in the township, and the land is highly productive, though hilly in some portions. The Welsh, who form a large proportion of the population, are generally a frugal and industrious class of citizens. Palmyra furnished thirty-seven soldiers for the Union in the late war, eleven of whom fell in the service. The Cleveland, Youngstown & Pittsburgh Railroad touches at Diamond.

Passage source: History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Palmyra Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 166 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 166 specimens collected within 10 miles of Diamond between 1880 and 1969: 148 Animalia, 10 Fungi, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by B. J. Crandall, B.J.Crandall, Brobst, P. 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 Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) PeckAgaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck1964B. J. CrandallShawnee State Park
Specimen of Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.1964B.J.CrandallShawnee State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Collector(s): S. N. DentonWindham
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1908Selby A. D.Atwater
A photograph of the species Elymus canadensis, not of this specimenElymus canadensis L.1912Hopkins, L.S.Erie RR near Windham
A photograph of the species Brassica juncea, not of this specimenBrassica juncea (L.) Czern.1913Webb, R.J.Erie RR track, Windham
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1918Hopkins, L.S.near Windham
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Riker A. J.New Milford

All 166 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Diamond: 1 producer. All of them 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
Valley Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Diamond in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002Thunderstorm WindDiamond$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large limbs.
April 2006HailDiamond-Penny size hail was observed north of Diamond.
May 2003HailDiamond-Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Portage 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
Flicks Corners1.1 miles14
Davis1.3 miles14
Palmyra1.5 miles14
Lloyd1.8 miles14
Pritchard2.6 miles13
Keans (historical)2.6 miles14
Yale4.7 miles14
All Seasons Lake Park4.8 miles14

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 DiamondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5270709The 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 1064540. 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.