Mapleton, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Osnaburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44730. It stands on Black Run. The Survey maps it on the Malvern quadrangle.
Then and now
1910 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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.
- 1910 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Carrollton quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Malvern quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
839 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Osnaburg 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 Osnaburg Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
7 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton between 2005 and 2015, burning about 14 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 885 |
| 26 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 2361 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 316 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 316 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mapleton between 1836 and 1975: 279 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T., 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd. | 1836 | Collector unknown | Canton |
![]() | Carex intumescens Rudge | 1836 | Collector unknown | Canton |
![]() | Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1875 | not recorded | No specific locality recorded. |
![]() | Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1885 | not recorded | Canton |
![]() | Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
![]() | Regulus satrapa satrapa Lichtenstein, 1823 | 1885 | Bulley, R. H | Canton |
All 316 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mapleton: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stark Pit | Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| D and M Pit | Clay, Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Stark Pit | Clay, Coal | Past Producer | ||
| D & M Coal Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| D and M Clay and Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Motts and Dehoff Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Motts and Dehoff Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Stark Ceramics, Incorporated Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
1 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 1 storm report between 1998 and 1998: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $500 | A couple of trees were downed in Mapleton and Minerva. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marks (historical) | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Robertsville | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| East Canton | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Hardscrabble (historical) | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Thunderbird Terrace | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Belfort | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Moreland | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Goodland Acres | 5.0 miles | 17 |
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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22924391 | The 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 1042977. 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.



























