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Knaufville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ellsworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44406. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

Knaufville within Mahoning County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Knaufville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Knaufville, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

3 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Knaufville between 2019 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
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
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15149
9 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15463
10 November 2019Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15333

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 300 shown

Museums hold 300 specimens collected within 10 miles of Knaufville between 1884 and 1974: 176 Animalia, 103 Plantae, 21 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Anderson, B., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 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 Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Dryopteris intermedia, not of this specimenDryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray1885Shafer, J.A.Lanterman Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Micranthes pensylvanica, not of this specimenMicranthes pensylvanica (L.) Haw.1885Shafer, J.A.near line Columbiana Co

All 300 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Knaufville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Clay, Coal. 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
Afc PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Afc PitClay, CoalProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning 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
Toots Corners1.1 miles16
Dublin1.7 miles13
Bowmans Corners2.2 miles16
Hickory Corners2.6 miles16
Westhill Heights2.6 miles13
Marquis2.8 miles16
Calla2.9 miles16
Ellsworth3.0 miles13

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 KnaufvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133891The 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 1061322. 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.