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

East Brookfield, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Massillon City. It lies in ZIP code area 44647. It stands on West Sippo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Massillon quadrangle.

East Brookfield 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 East Brookfield, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of East Brookfield, surveyed 1901

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

1 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of East Brookfield between 2005 and 2005, burning about 8 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	1

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
13 April 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 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 430 shown

Museums hold 430 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Brookfield between 1836 and 1975: 368 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 8 Unrecorded, 4 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
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

All 430 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of East Brookfield: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Republic Steel/ Massillon, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Aj Diana Sons Inc Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Diana Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Massillon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Northern Ohio Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Mayflower Village	0.4 miles	18
Autumn Ridge Estates	0.6 miles	18
Rolling Hills Village	0.6 miles	18
Sherwood (historical)	0.7 miles	18
West Brookfield	0.9 miles	18
Lawndale	1.0 miles	18
West Massillon	1.1 miles	18
Spring Valley Estates	1.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057343. 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.