Hiram Rapids, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1905 1994

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.

• 1905 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Mantua quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Mantua quadrangle1:24000
• 1959 USGS Mantua quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mantua quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hiram Rapids between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Garrettsville
• Hiram
• Nelson
• Homestead Manor
• Troy Oaks Homes

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Museums hold 439 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hiram Rapids between 1884 and 1974: 340 Animalia, 95 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Brobst, P. 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
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1884	G. Dean	Garretsville
	Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.	1904	Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. Webb	Freedom Twp
	Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 1908	1936	W. Thrasher	Garrettville
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1893	not recorded	Garrettsville
	Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Notropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Rhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
	Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)	1893	Woolman	Cuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
	Umbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)	1893	A. Woolman	Cuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 439 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hiram Rapids: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Portage County

The National Weather Service names Hiram Rapids in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in Portage County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064843. 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.