Glens Cottage Area, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44656. It lies in Spring Valley. The Survey maps it on the Mineral City quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 82 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
17 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.
- 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Dover 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
- 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
In the 1884 county history
3,479 words on this townshipThe county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Warren Township covers formation, change of boundaries, the pioneers, indians, topographyone leg creek, new cumberland.
Read the chapter on Warren Township - 3,479 words.
Fires nearby
8 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Glens Cottage Area between 2003 and 2019, burning about 37 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12906 |
| 12 April 2014 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11234 |
| 25 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 7.9 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 March 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15058 |
| 1 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 November 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2925 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 364 shownMuseums hold 364 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glens Cottage Area between 1883 and 1973: 294 Animalia, 66 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bethel E., Bolin, F. A. (Franklin A.), Collector(s): unknown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895 | 1894 | G. Marston | Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia |
![]() | Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896 | 1894 | G. Marston | Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia |
![]() | Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858 | 1895 | G. Marston | from spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki) |
![]() | Alasmidonta marginata Say, 1818 | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Alasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Cyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia |
![]() | Lasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Theliderma cylindrica (Say, 1817) | 1883 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Cyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831) | 1884 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
![]() | Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1884 | Sterki, Victor | New Philadelphia |
All 364 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore Cottage Area | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| New Cumberland | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Rockford | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Roswell | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Tabor | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Johnston | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Egypt (historical) | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Somerdale | 5.6 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1960701. 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.




























