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Goodland Acres, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sandy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44688. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waynesburg quadrangle.

Goodland Acres within Stark County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Goodland Acres, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Goodland Acres, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

In the 1881 county history

61,747 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sandy Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sandy Township - 61,747 words.

Fires nearby

16 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Goodland Acres between 2003 and 2018, burning about 34 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2005Debris and open burning4.4 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1321
19 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12786
16 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12785

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 143 shown

Museums hold 143 specimens collected within 10 miles of Goodland Acres between 1890 and 1975: 140 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Amnicola cincinnatiensis, not of this specimenAmnicola cincinnatiensis (J.G.Anthony, 1840)1900Stearns, Robert E CCanton
A photograph of the species Pisidium moitessierianum, not of this specimenPisidium moitessierianum Paladilhe, 18661900Anson A. HinkleyNimishillen Creek, Canton, North America
Pleuroceridae1900Stearns, Robert E CCanton
A photograph of the species Achalarus lyciades, not of this specimenAchalarus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)1927C.W. Baker
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township

All 143 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Goodland Acres: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. 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
D and M PitClay, CoalPast Producer
D & M Coal Clay PitClayProducer
D and M Clay and Shale PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Mineral City PlantClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Mineral City PlantClayPlant

Every working recorded in Stark 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
Waynesburg0.5 miles17
Magnolia2.6 miles17
Mapleton5.0 miles16
East Sparta5.0 miles17
Howenstine5.5 miles17
Marks (historical)5.5 miles17
Hardscrabble (historical)5.7 miles17
Battlesburg6.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122555931The 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 1040952. 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.