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.
Then and now
1905 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Salineville 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 Gavers quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Gavers quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Gavers quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Wayne township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
291,315 words on this townshipHistory 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.
Fires near this place
29 since 2003Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15281 |
| 3 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5.6 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 April 2016 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4667 |
| 17 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIANA |
| 13 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 13886 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 511 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon | 1916 | E.K. Seymour | Lower campus |
![]() | Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Polyporus galactinus Berk. | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763) | 1889 | A. D. Mac Gillivroy | Salineville |
![]() | Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793) | 1889 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840) | 1891 | not recorded | ||
| Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864) | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773) | 1892 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Megachile mendica Cresson, 1878 | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Viola L. | 1897 | Holzinger, J.M. | Winona County. |
![]() | Plantago rugelii Decne. | 1899 | Shafer, J.A. | Lisbon |
![]() | Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840) | 1901 | United States Bureau of Fisheries | Ohio, 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summitville Tiles Inc Shale Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $50,000 | Law enforcement reported trees and powerlines down in Gavers. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $15,000 | A trained spotter reported a large barn blown over on East Liverpool Road. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $10,000 | Emergency management reported multiple trees down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a barn roof blown off. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $5,000 | Local law enforcement reported several trees down in and around Gavers. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $2,500 | State official reported trees down on Route 518. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gavers | $2,000 | At the intersection of State Route 164 and Spring Valley Road, a tree was blown down. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Gavers | $1,000 | The county 911 Call Center reported road closed due to high water. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Gavers | - | Minor flooding was reported along portions of the North Branch of the Yellow Creek in Wayne Township. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dungannon | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Millport | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Summitville | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lockbridge (historical) | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lisbon | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Jordanville | 5.1 miles | 15 | |
| Saratoga (historical) | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Logtown | 5.4 miles | 15 |
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 Gavers | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22133770 | The 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.





















