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

Industry, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rootstown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44272. The Survey maps it on the Atwater quadrangle.

Industry within Portage County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Industry, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Industry, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 county-history sources

4,242 words on this township

History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Rootstown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Until the year 1806 the Indian title to the lands west of the Cuyahoga River and Portage path had not been extinguished, and some uneasiness was felt by the settlers on these lands for fear that their title might not be as perfect as they could wish. On Mai'ch 5, 1805, Ephraim Root wrote to Elijah Wadsworth that measures were pending for the extinguishment of these claims of the Indians, and stated that a treaty would shortly be made with them, and, accordingly, a Treaty Council was held at Fort Industry, and the titles of the lands obtained, but the measure had yet to pass the Senate. It came before the Senate, that body ratified the proceedings of the Council, and the claims of the aboriginies were forever silenced.

Passage source: History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Rootstown Township.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 339 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 339 specimens collected within 10 miles of Industry between 1880 and 1975: 246 Animalia, 81 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. K. Wyatt 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 Hypoxylon glomeratum CookeHypoxylon glomeratum Cooke1920C. G. LloydLloyd
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1924Webb, Roscoe J.Alford's Glen
Specimen of Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 1854Elimia H.Adams & A.Adams, 18541928not recordedCongress Lake Outlet, SW of Kent, North America
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Collection of R. SpiresAtwater, Near
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1883John C. CatlinRavenna
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Glaucomys volans, not of this specimenGlaucomys volans volans (Linnaeus, 1758)1889C. P. StreatorRavenna
A photograph of the species Pyganodon cataracta, not of this specimenPyganodon cataracta (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown, Congress Lake Outlet and Cuyahoga River(pond to)
A photograph of the species Sagittunio nasutus, not of this specimenSagittunio nasutus (Say, 1817)1894Sterki, VictorRootstown
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1899W. A. KellermanEdinburgh
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1900Sterki, VictorKent, Congress Lake Outlet=Breakneck Creek

All 339 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Industry: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Twin Lakes Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage 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
New Milford2.2 miles18
Rootstown3.0 miles18
Edinburg3.0 miles18
Valley Hills3.6 miles18
Five Corners3.7 miles18
Atwater4.0 miles18
Countrywide Estates4.0 miles18
Campbellsport4.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064886. 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.