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Greentown, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44685. The Survey maps it on the North Canton quadrangle. 3,382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Greentown within Stark County

Population over time

3 figures

Greentown grew from 3,154 to 3,382 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20003,154
20103,804+650 (+21%)
20203,382-422 (-11%)

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greentown, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Greentown, surveyed 1901

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 397 shown

Museums hold 397 specimens collected within 10 miles of Greentown between 1836 and 1975: 334 Animalia, 54 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, A.M. Rogers, Allen, John 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 unnamed1907Bruce Fink
A photograph of the species Carex granularis, not of this specimenCarex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.1836Collector unknownCanton
A photograph of the species Carex intumescens, not of this specimenCarex intumescens Rudge1836Collector unknownCanton
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Archilochus colubris, not of this specimenArchilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Hylocichla mustelina, not of this specimenHylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1885not recordedCanton
A photograph of the species Melospiza georgiana, not of this specimenMelospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Molothrus ater, not of this specimenMolothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1885Bulley, R. HCanton
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1885Bulley, R. HCanton

All 397 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 16 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Greentown: 9 producers, 5 past producers, 2 plants. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
East Ohio Limestone Co. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
East Ohio QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Central Allied Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Central Allied Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Greensburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Greensburg Sand & Gravel MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hartville Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Heiser Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Heiser Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Knight Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

4 since 2017

The National Weather Service names Greentown in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2022Flash FloodGreentown$750,000Stark County Sheriff and North Canton Police reported flash flooding across North Canton. River levels on Zimber Ditch and West Branch Nimishillen Creek rose 5.5 feet in one hour, reaching flood stage by 730 PM EDT. Flood waters from Zimber Ditch entered businesses along Whipple Avenue NW. Reports of more than one dozen homes with several feet of water into basements throughout North Canton. Per local media, county officials estimated the number of homes and businesses impacted by flooding was in the hundreds. Radar estimated rainfall totals of 2.5 to 4 inches fell in the northern portion of North Canton in one hour, with peak instantaneous rainfall rates of 5 to 6 inches per hour.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGreentown$150,000A thunderstorm downburst with wind gusts estimated to be as much as 70 mph caused damage in Plain and Lake Township in northern Stark County. The downburst began in a residential development south of Mount Pleasant Street in Plain Township. At least a dozen trees were uprooted or snapped between Fox Run Avenue NW and Peachmont Avenue NW. Additional tree and structural damage was noted between the intersection of Mount Pleasant Street NW and Peachmont Avenue NW to Stonebridge Avenue NW in Lake Township. This damage continued east to Rolling Hill Avenue NW where the damage ended. There were over a dozen homes damaged with most of the damage in the form of lost shingles or siding. Most of this damage occurred on the southern and western sides of the homes.
August 2024Flash FloodGreentown$15,000Multiple flooded roadways with several feet of standing water and some cars stranded. Reports of some roadways with flowing water over them. Some roads experiencing flooding include Whipple Avenue NW, Belden Village Street NW, and Mount Pleasant Street NW near I-77. Zimber Ditch in North Canton reached 4 feet around 10 AM EDT to the 9.5 foot flood stage at 12 PM EDT, cresting at 10.43 feet at 2:45 PM EDT. Radar estimated and gauge measured rainfall of 4 to 4.25 inches in a two to three hour period caused the flash flooding.
May 2022HailGreentown-Penny to quarter-size hail in Greentown.

Every storm 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
Aultman0.8 miles17
Mount Pleasant1.4 miles17
Tower Terrace2.6 miles17
Cairo2.7 miles19
Uniontown3.3 miles17
Marchand (historical)3.4 miles17
North Canton3.6 miles17
Midway3.6 miles19

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 GreentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2503361The 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 1064760. 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.

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.