Mahoning, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Windham Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44231. It stands on Mahoning Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garrettsville quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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 Garrettsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Garrettsville quadrangle1:24000
In the 1885 county history
10,186 words on this townshipThe county history of 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Windham Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Windham Township - 10,186 words.
Fires nearby
1 since 2020The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mahoning 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 16005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 365 shownMuseums hold 365 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mahoning between 1884 and 1975: 252 Animalia, 109 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. F. Clewell, A. Woolman 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 |
![]() | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1924 | Webb, Roscoe J. | Alford's Glen |
![]() | Lepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort. | 1884 | Czekaj | |
![]() | Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1885 | Collector(s): S. N. Denton | Windham |
![]() | 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 |
All 365 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mahoning: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Portage Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Portage Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms nearby
1 since 2019The National Weather Service names Mahoning in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 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 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Mahoning | $25,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down in far northeast Portage County|southwest of Southington. The tornado briefly tracked northeast|before turning to the east-southeast into Trumbull County. The tornado destroyed|several outbuildings and produced extensive tree damage,|especially about a mile south of Southington. The tornado had an|intermittent path across northern Warren before lifting near the|Trumbull Country Club. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| P And M Estates | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Windham | 1.6 miles | 13 | |
| Homestead Manor | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Garrettsville | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Nelson | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Drakesburg | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Blackbrook Valley Estates | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Jeddoe | 5.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061462. 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.
























