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

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.

Mahoning within Portage County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Mahoning, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mahoning, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 1885 county history

10,186 words on this township

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 chapter on Windham Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Windham Township - 10,186 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2020

The 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 burning1

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
20 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 365 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884G. DeanGarretsville
Specimen of Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.1904Rood, Almon N.; Roscoe J. WebbFreedom Twp
Specimen of Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1924Webb, Roscoe J.Alford's Glen
A photograph of the species Lepidozia reptans, not of this specimenLepidozia reptans (L.) Dumort.1884Czekaj
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Collector(s): S. N. DentonWindham
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1893not recordedGarrettsville
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 365 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portage PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Portage QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Tornado (EF1)Mahoning$25,000An 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.

Every storm 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
P And M Estates0.7 miles13
Windham1.6 miles13
Homestead Manor1.8 miles13
Garrettsville3.1 miles13
Nelson3.5 miles13
Drakesburg4.8 miles15
Blackbrook Valley Estates5.2 miles13
Jeddoe5.2 miles13

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.