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

Justus, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sugarcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44662. It stands on Elm Run. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle.

Justus within Stark County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Justus, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Justus, surveyed 1914

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.

Fires nearby

4 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Justus between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning	4

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8606
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 March 2018	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11645
23 February 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15426

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 160 shown

Museums hold 160 specimens collected within 10 miles of Justus between 1875 and 1975: 149 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J., Bruce Fink 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1875	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
Lanius borealis borealis	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Pooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1888	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Bombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 1808	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Pines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
Colaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 1898	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs
Icterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1889	Harry C. Oberholser	Newman Springs

All 160 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 Justus: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
County Line Sr 212 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Navarre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

2 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Justus in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Tornado (EF0)	Justus	$10,000	About two-miles SSE of Brewster, an EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 80-mph formed in an open field east of Manchester Avenue SW and south of Lawndell Road SW, and moved generally eastward during its lifespan. The tornado struck a well-built barn. Between 50 and 100 slate tiles were removed from the barn's roof, blown southward, and embedded in the adjacent field. Large tree branches were broken just to the east of the barn. Several of the these tree branches were also twisted, indicative of tornado-related damage. As the tornado then moved across the open field, it generated faint suction marks in the crop rows. The tornado then moved into a wooded area, where it knocked down two large trees before dissipating.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Justus	-	Massillon area recorded 3.5 inches of rain in a little more than 90 minutes. Massillon Fire Department personnel aided trapped motorists along First Street SW under the railroad trestle. Rushing water 1 to 2 feet deep reported on Tennyson Avenue NE by Thackary Avenue NW. Worst flooding was in the northern part of the city.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Park Heights	1.0 miles	18
Brewster	1.0 miles	18
Harmon	1.1 miles	18
North Brewster	1.5 miles	18
Crossroads	1.6 miles	18
Camp Creek	2.1 miles	18
Elton	2.6 miles	18
Smoketown	3.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061136. 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.