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Mantua Corners, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mantua Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44255. The Survey maps it on the Mantua quadrangle.

Mantua Corners 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 Mantua Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mantua Corners, surveyed 1905

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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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Mantua township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 - Mantua Township

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Judson's first wife in 1804; Wareham Loomis' child, two years old, in 1805; Jacob Blnir, killed at a " raising" in 1807; Mark Moore died in 1812; Sanjuel Jodsoa's wife in 1813; Ichabod Payne in 1S13; Melissa Keed in 181G; Enoch Jndson's aeoond wife died in 1810; Amzi Atwater, son of ilmzi, Sr., in 1810; Caleb, son of Rnfus Edwarda, aboat 1817; Leona^N], son of L orouz ) Chapin, in 1818; wife of Basil Windsor, Sr., in 1818; Martha, ciau^'ht.

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In the county-history sources

10,315 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Mantua Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Mantua Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 625 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 625 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mantua Corners between 1884 and 1975: 501 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 3 Fungi. 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 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
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1893WoolmanCuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio

All 625 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Mantua Corners: 11 past producers, 7 producers, 1 plant. 8 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Beck Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Haueter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haueter Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Lucky PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lucky Sand and Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Miller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Miller Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oscar Brugmann PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mantua Corners in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2017FloodMantua Corners$5,000Numerous road closures occurred across Portage County after around 2 inches of rainfall fell on January 12th. This rainfall, on top of partially frozen ground cover, caused widespread flooding. The hardest hit communities were Mantua, Shalersville, Garrettsville, Palmyra, Nelson, Suffield, and Deerfield. Flooding in Streetsboro cut off about 24 apartments. There was one washed out road, Coit Rd. in Shalersville Township.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMantua Corners-Tree downed near Pioneer Trail and Peck Road in Mantua.

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
Mantua Center1.3 miles13
Mantua1.8 miles13
Silo3.2 miles17
Hiram Rapids3.6 miles13
Hiram4.1 miles13
Evergreen Village4.6 miles15
Jeddoe4.7 miles13
Pine Manor4.8 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122597019The 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 1042929. 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.

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.