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

East Alliance, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44601. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alliance quadrangle.

East Alliance within Mahoning County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of East Alliance, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Alliance, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 116 shown

Museums hold 116 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Alliance between 1883 and 1975: 114 Animalia, 1 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, Coovert, H.K.; Coovert, G.A., Jones, L. R. 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
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1906Sterki, VictorSebring
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1906Sterki, VictorSebring
Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1906Sterki, VictorSebring
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1928MB Trautman & JS HineTrib to Mahoning River, Goshen Twp
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanMahoning River, southern Smith Twp

All 116 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Alliance: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Clay, Coal, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Alliance QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Alliance QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitacre Shale PlantClayPast Producer
Whiteacre Greer PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

1 since 2007

The National Weather Service names East Alliance in 1 storm report between 2007 and 2007: 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEast Alliance$5,000Several trees were reported down.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning 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
Alden Park0.3 miles20
Maple Ridge1.6 miles20
Alliance Junction2.0 miles20
Sebring3.2 miles20
Beloit4.5 miles15
Westville4.6 miles15
Snodes5.5 miles15
Naylor5.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048677. 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.