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

Middle Beaver, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elkrun Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44432. It stands on Turkeyfoot Run. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Middle Beaver within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Middle Beaver (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Middle Beaver (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

41 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Middle Beaver (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1181
4 May 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 May 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1741
4 April 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15713
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12925
16 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4610

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 753 shown

Museums hold 753 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middle Beaver (historical) between 1895 and 1975: 498 Animalia, 227 Plantae, 27 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron, Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Hieracium aurantiacum, not of this specimenHieracium aurantiacum L.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Parietaria pensylvanica, not of this specimenParietaria pensylvanica Muhl. ex Willd.1899Shafer, J.A.near Unity
A photograph of the species Plantago rugelii, not of this specimenPlantago rugelii Decne.1899Shafer, J.A.Lisbon
A photograph of the species Rosa L., not of this specimenRosa L.1899Shafer, J.A.Unity
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.

All 753 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Williamsport0.7 miles20
Clarkson1.6 miles22
Campus2.6 miles20
Rock Camp3.0 miles20
East Carmel3.2 miles17
Sprucevale3.5 miles22
Elkton3.7 miles15
West Point3.8 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067659. 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.