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

McKays Corners, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Boardman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44514. It stands on Burgess Run. The Survey maps it on the Youngstown quadrangle.

McKays Corners within Mahoning County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McKays Corners, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of McKays Corners, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

4 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of McKays Corners between 2010 and 2019, burning about 2 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 burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15192
19 May 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15195
10 November 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15291

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 422 shown

Museums hold 422 specimens collected within 10 miles of McKays Corners between 1853 and 1974: 251 Animalia, 165 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, B Withers, B. West 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 Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850Cottus bairdii Girard, 18501853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Shafer, J.A.Petersburg
Specimen of Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891W. H. OlneyPoland
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1853not recordedPoland, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191853C. KirtlandYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 422 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of McKays Corners: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Standard Slag/ Struthers, OhioSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Us Steel/ Youngstown, OhioIronProducer
Bessemer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hillsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning 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
Poland1.0 miles13
Boardman1.5 miles16
McClurg2.2 miles17
Struthers2.4 miles13
Porters Corners2.5 miles17
Woodworth2.9 miles17
Flint Hill3.4 miles16
South Side3.5 miles16

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 Q122549394The 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 1043113. 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.