Minerva, Ohio

Minerva fell from 3,720 to 3,684 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The 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.

1910 1994

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.

• 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 Minerva quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Minerva quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Minerva quadrangle1:24000

Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys, published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Paris Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Minerva between 2004 and 2016, burning about 20 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Myers
• Robertsville
• Goodland Acres
• Mapleton
• Pleasant Valley (historical)
• Waynesburg

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Minerva between 1927 and 1951: 124 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. W., Baker, C.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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Achalarus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)	1927	C.W. Baker
	Ambloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
	Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
	Hybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
	Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
	Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)	1928	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township

All 124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Minerva: 6 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Stark County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minerva in 1 storm report between 1996 and 1996: 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.

Every storm recorded in Stark County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056427. 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.