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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Guilford, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44432. The Survey maps it on the Lisbon quadrangle.

Guilford within Columbiana County

Then and now

1909 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Guilford, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Guilford, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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 1879 county history

613 words on this township

The county history of 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hanover Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hanover Township - 613 words.

Fires nearby

11 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Guilford between 2003 and 2009, burning about 93 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
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
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined78 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIANA
10 April 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 524 shown

Museums hold 524 specimens collected within 10 miles of Guilford between 1878 and 1975: 255 Animalia, 233 Plantae, 35 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
Specimen of Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
A photograph of the species Tringa semipalmata, not of this specimenTringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanOhio Valley
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana County
A photograph of the species Thelypteris palustris, not of this specimenThelypteris palustris var. pubescens (G.Lawson) Fernald1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Chamerion angustifolium, not of this specimenChamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch1885Shafer, J.A.N.Y.P.U.O.RR, East of Salem
A photograph of the species Micranthes pensylvanica, not of this specimenMicranthes pensylvanica (L.) Haw.1885Shafer, J.A.near line Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Platanthera lacera, not of this specimenPlatanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don1885Shafer, J.A.; Hill, W.near Columbiana County line

All 524 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2005

The National Weather Service names Guilford in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 4 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGuilford$20,000A trained spotter reported a large tree down on a house and car.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGuilford$10,000Trees were reported down along Teagarden Road.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGuilford$5,000Trees and power lines down.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindGuilford$2,000County 911 officials reported numerous trees were blown down near Guilford.
June 2013HailGuilford-no account filed

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
Guilford Lake Estates0.3 miles15
Guilford Lake1.1 miles14
Coleman2.8 miles15
Teegarden2.9 miles15
Winona3.0 miles14
Lockbridge (historical)3.1 miles15
New Garden3.2 miles14
Logtown3.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064775. 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.

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.