Franklin Square, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1986

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.

• 1909 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Franklin Square between 2004 and 2020, burning about 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Leetonia
• Washingtonville
• Unionville
• Longs Crossing
• New Middleton
• Salem

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 461 specimens collected within 10 miles of Franklin Square between 1878 and 1975: 235 Plantae, 189 Animalia, 36 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Adiantum pedatum L.	1887	?	Dense woods, Salem.
	Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1887	Wilkinson, E.	Salem
	Alternaria Nees	1904	D.F. Yenghing
	Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1878	Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman	Ohio Valley
	Asclepias incarnata L.	1884	E. Wilkinson	Salem
	Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.	1884	E. Wilkinson	Salem
	Ilex verticillata (L.) A.Gray	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near line of Columbiana Co
	Onoclea sensibilis L.	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near line of Columbiana County
	Thelypteris palustris var. pubescens (G.Lawson) Fernald	1884	Shafer, J.A.	near line of Columbiana Co
	Chamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch	1885	Shafer, J.A.	N.Y.P.U.O.RR, East of Salem
	Micranthes pensylvanica (L.) Haw.	1885	Shafer, J.A.	near line Columbiana Co
	Platanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don	1885	Shafer, J.A.; Hill, W.	near Columbiana County line

All 461 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Franklin Square: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Franklin Square in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064676. 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.