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New Albany, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44460. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle.

New Albany within Mahoning 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 New Albany, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Albany, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 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 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of New Albany between 2019 and 2020, burning about 10 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
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
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
9 May 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15194
12 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15149
9 March 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15463
10 November 2019Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15333

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 311 shown

Museums hold 311 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Albany between 1883 and 1975: 195 Animalia, 96 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Anderson, B., 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
Specimen of Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana County
A photograph of the species Thelypteris palustris, not of this specimenThelypteris palustris var. pubescens (G.Lawson) Fernald1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Micranthes pensylvanica, not of this specimenMicranthes pensylvanica (L.) Haw.1885Shafer, J.A.near line Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Platanthera lacera, not of this specimenPlatanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don1885Shafer, J.A.; Hill, W.near Columbiana County line
A photograph of the species Toxicodendron vernix, not of this specimenToxicodendron vernix (L.) Kuntze1885Shafer, J.A.near Columbiana County

All 311 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Albany: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names New Albany in 1 storm report between 2019 and 2019: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Albany-Several large tree branches were blown down on power lines along Route 165.

Every storm 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
Greenford2.4 miles16
Hickory Corners2.4 miles16
Millville3.0 miles16
Pointview3.3 miles15
Bowmans Corners3.4 miles16
Knaufville3.7 miles16
Toots Corners3.8 miles16
Locust Grove3.8 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.

Wikipedia article on New AlbanyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134021The 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 1065107. 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.