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Fredericktown, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44441. It stands on North Fork Little Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle.

Fredericktown within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fredericktown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fredericktown, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

22 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Fredericktown between 2010 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6346
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1181
5 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1090
3 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4653
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12925
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 nearby

12 of 513 shown

Museums hold 513 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fredericktown between 1885 and 1975: 315 Animalia, 179 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
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
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson

All 513 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fredericktown: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 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
Landsberry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Negley Refractories PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Negley Refractories PitClay, BituminousPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms nearby

6 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Fredericktown in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindFredericktown$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindFredericktown-Trees were reported down by a local citizen.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFredericktown-Trees down in area reported by trained spotter.
September 2024HailFredericktown-no account filed
June 1998HailFredericktown-no account filed
June 1998HailFredericktown-no account filed

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
Sprucevale1.9 miles22
Santa Clara Estates2.6 miles22
Grimms Bridge2.6 miles22
Calcutta3.2 miles22
Cannons Mill4.0 miles22
Clarkson4.2 miles22
Achor4.2 miles17
Union Ridge4.4 miles17

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 FredericktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5499217The 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 1064681. 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.