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Gavers, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44432. It stands on Rowley Run. The Survey maps it on the Gavers quadrangle. It stands 3,327 feet above sea level.

Gavers within Columbiana County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gavers, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Gavers, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Wayne township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Columbiana County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1905 - Wayne Township

Kubius B Manna

(Grim) Thompson. I lis grandfather was also named William Thompson and kept a hotel in Calcutta in the long ago when that village was in its palmiest days as a trading jx>st. His father was horn October jS. 1S13. and met his death by drowning at Smith's Kerry in 1839, when his son was two years old. ilis mother was a daughter of Michael (irim and was lxim in 1818 in Columbiana County.

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In the county-history sources

291,315 words on this township

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

Wayne has within its limits no villages, although there are two postal stations, known as Gavers and West Beaver. Gavers, named in honor of Gideon Gaver, an early settler, has a store, but with that its semblance to a village ceases, since the neighboring dwellings are all farm-houses.

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

Ruhl, John C., son of Jeremiah and Mary (Cruser) Ruhl, b. WestTp., Columbiana Co., 1830, s. Wayne, 1875, Farmer and Stock-Grower, p. o. add. Gavers. Stewart, Thomas D., son of James and Sarah (Robinson) Stewart, 1). Hancock Co., West Va., s. Wayne, 1823, Farmer, p. o. add. West Beaver.

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 Wayne Township.

Fires near this place

29 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Gavers between 2003 and 2020, burning about 148 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
12 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15281
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2005Debris and open burning5.6 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Smoking3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4667
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined78 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIANA
13 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Arson/incendiarism20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13886

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 511 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 511 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gavers between 1889 and 1975: 333 Animalia, 159 Plantae, 18 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron 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 Polistes annularis, not of this specimenPolistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)1889A. D. Mac GillivroySalineville
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1889not recordedSalineville
Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840)1891not recorded
Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864)1892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1892not recordedSalineville
Megachile mendica Cresson, 18781892unknownSalineville
A photograph of the species Viola L., not of this specimenViola L.1897Holzinger, J.M.Winona County.
A photograph of the species Plantago rugelii, not of this specimenPlantago rugelii Decne.1899Shafer, J.A.Lisbon
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1901United States Bureau of FisheriesOhio, Cold Run, Columbiana County

All 511 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gavers: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Summitville Tiles Inc Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gavers in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 7 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGavers$50,000Law enforcement reported trees and powerlines down in Gavers.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindGavers$15,000A trained spotter reported a large barn blown over on East Liverpool Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGavers$10,000Emergency management reported multiple trees down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGavers$5,000Emergency management reported a barn roof blown off.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGavers$5,000Local law enforcement reported several trees down in and around Gavers.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGavers$2,500State official reported trees down on Route 518.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGavers$2,000At the intersection of State Route 164 and Spring Valley Road, a tree was blown down.
June 2018Flash FloodGavers$1,000The county 911 Call Center reported road closed due to high water.
June 2000Flash FloodGavers-Minor flooding was reported along portions of the North Branch of the Yellow Creek in Wayne Township.

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
Dungannon4.3 miles14
Millport4.3 miles14
Summitville4.7 miles14
Lockbridge (historical)4.8 miles15
Lisbon4.9 miles15
Jordanville5.1 miles15
Saratoga (historical)5.3 miles15
Logtown5.4 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 GaversAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133770The 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 1064707. 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.