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

Easton, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Chippewa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44230. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doylestown quadrangle.

Easton within Wayne 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 Easton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Easton, surveyed 1901

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 80 shown

Museums hold 80 specimens collected within 10 miles of Easton between 1883 and 1974: 50 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, Bruce, J. A., C. A. Triplehorn 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 Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City
A photograph of the species Lasmigona complanata, not of this specimenLasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1883Sterki, VictorBurton City(ditch in), Newman Creek & Tuscarawas River(ditch to)
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1896Selby A. D.Creston
A photograph of the species Pseudoperonospora cubensis, not of this specimenPseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev1897Selby, A. D.Creston
A photograph of the species Solanum carolinense, not of this specimenSolanum carolinense L.1898Duvel, J.W.TCreston
Solidago bicolor L.1898Duvel, J.W.TSugar Creek
A photograph of the species Apios americana, not of this specimenApios americana Medik.1899Selby, A.D.Doner's Lake

All 80 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 Easton: 1 plant. 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
Zollinger Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms nearby

1 since 2025

The National Weather Service names Easton in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEaston-Tree limbs downed about two-miles southwest of Doylestown.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Doylestown2.4 miles17
Rittman3.0 miles16
Marshallville3.5 miles17
Marshall Estates4.0 miles17
Johnsons Corners5.6 miles16
Sterling6.1 miles16
Little Chippewa Estates6.2 miles15
Auburn Estates7.0 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 EastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133722The 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 1064594. 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.