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

Marlboro, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Marlboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44601. The Survey maps it on the Limaville quadrangle. 247 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Marlboro within Stark 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 Marlboro, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Marlboro, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

2 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Marlboro between 2002 and 2002, 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
Recreation and ceremony1
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
2 April 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 October 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 110 shown

Museums hold 110 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marlboro between 1890 and 1975: 102 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, John, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bryan, J. M. 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
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Paul MorrisAlliance, near
A photograph of the species Cambarunio iris, not of this specimenCambarunio iris (I.Lea, 1829)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Bromus ciliatus, not of this specimenBromus ciliatus L.1899Selby, A.D.Hartville
A photograph of the species Galium tinctorium, not of this specimenGalium tinctorium (L.) Scop.1899Selby, A.D.Hartville
A photograph of the species Vaccinium corymbosum, not of this specimenVaccinium corymbosum L.1899Selby, A.T.Hartville
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1903not recordedNew Baltimore
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1905Ortmann, Arnold ECanton, Nimishillen Cr(E branch)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ECanton, Nimishillen Cr(E branch)
A photograph of the species Passerina ciris, not of this specimenPasserina ciris (Linnaeus, 1758)1905F. A. W. DeanAlliance
A photograph of the species Euglesa adamsii, not of this specimenEuglesa adamsii (W.Stimpson, 1851)1909Allen, JohnCongress Lake
A photograph of the species Euglesa casertana, not of this specimenEuglesa casertana (Poli, 1791)1909Allen, JohnCongress Lake

All 110 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Marlboro in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindMarlboro$30,000Numerous trees were reported down. In Marlboro Township, a barn was blown off of its foundation.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindMarlboro$12,000Broadcast Media relayed a report that the dugout was destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds at the Marlington High School field west of Alliance.
June 2008Flash FloodMarlboro$10,000Numerous were closed by water up to 2 feet deep in both Marlboro and Hartville due to the heavy rainfall. Rainfall of 2.4 inches was measured in Hartville over a 2 hour period.
June 1998LightningMarlboro$5,000Lightning struck the fire station causing fire balls to shoot out of the outlets.
July 2003Funnel CloudMarlboro-A funnel cloud was observed two miles north of Marlboro. The funnel never came in contact with the ground and caused no damage.

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
New Baltimore3.0 miles18
Harrisburg4.0 miles18
Limaville4.1 miles18
Bolton5.3 miles20
Maximo5.6 miles18
Lexington5.8 miles20
Beechwood5.9 miles18
Hillcrest6.0 miles20

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 MarlboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716661The 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 1057833. 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.

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.