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East Carmel, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Middleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44455. The Survey maps it on the East Palestine quadrangle.

East Carmel within Columbiana County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 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 Carmel, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Carmel, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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 county-history sources

19,600 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Middleton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taylor, Jacob, son of Joseph and Sarah (Read) Taylor, b. Columbiana Co. 1810, s. Middleton, 1851, Farmer and Fruit Grower, p. o. add. East Carmel. Taylor, E. G., son of Benjamin and Eleanor Taylor, b. Columbiana Co., Ohio, 1850, Carpenter and Joiner, p. o. add. Clarkson.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

1844, s. Middleton, 1859, Farmer and Fruit Grower, p. o. add. East Carmel . Heald, James, son of James and Mary (Wilson) Ileald, b. Columbiana Co. 1S22, s. Middleton Tp. 1858, Farmer and Fruit Grower, p. o. add. East Carmel. Lyons, Richard, son of Mathew and Nancy (Kelley) Lyons, b. Washington Co., Pa., 1806, s. Middleton Tp. 1810, Farmer and Fruit Grower, p. o. add. Clarkson.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

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 Middleton Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

32 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of East Carmel between 2005 and 2020, burning about 32 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1181
29 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1741
6 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources866
3 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 658 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 658 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Carmel between 1885 and 1975: 411 Animalia, 222 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Osmunda regalis, not of this specimenOsmunda regalis var. spectabilis (Willd.) A.Gray1885Shafer, J.A.on line of Columbiana Co., 4 mi S of Petersburg
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Hieracium aurantiacum, not of this specimenHieracium aurantiacum L.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Parietaria pensylvanica, not of this specimenParietaria pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Plantago rugelii, not of this specimenPlantago rugelii Decne.1899Shafer, J.A.Lisbon
A photograph of the species Rosa L., not of this specimenRosa L.1899Shafer, J.A.Unity
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson

All 658 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of East Carmel: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Bituminous. 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
Negley Refractories PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Negley Refractories PitClay, BituminousPast Producer
Coppock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Coppock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Carmel in 1 storm report between 2016 and 2016: 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
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Carmel$5,000Emergency management reported numerous trees down.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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
Rogers1.2 miles15
Mill Rock1.9 miles17
Union Ridge2.0 miles17
Clarkson2.1 miles22
Signal2.8 miles15
Middle Beaver (historical)3.2 miles20
East Fairfield3.3 miles15
Newhouse (historical)3.7 miles15

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 East CarmelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133717The 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 1064575. 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.

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.