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New Alexander, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in West Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44625. The Survey maps it on the Hanoverton quadrangle.

New Alexander within Columbiana 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 Alexander, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Alexander, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

In the county-history sources

42,133 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on West Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Probably the oldest hamlet in West township is the little village of New Alexander. No positive record of its platting exists, but it must have been laid out about the year 1812. Originally, it comprised twenty acres of land, owned by David Smith, a pioneer of the township. A hotel was built there in 1818 and run by John Ritz. The sign of the Black Bear is still in the memory of some of the older inhabitants. John Ritz died about the year 1840. New Alexander was on the old stage-line road, and a haltingplace of considerable note in its early days. The place has about fifty houses and a population of about 200.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Chambersburg is situated about three miles west from New Alexander, and is on the old stage-road of fifty years ago. An old hotel stood on the site of the village before it was laid out. It was kept by Samuel Miller until burned, about 1830. Mr. Koffel then built and ran a hotel at the village. At present Chambersburg has a tavern, store, and blacksmith-shop. Its population is about 100.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

West township has nine church societies, some of which held informal meetings prior to 1820, yet there is found but one church-building erected before that time. This was the old log church and school-house built for all public purposes in the year 1810 at New Alexander. This old pioneer building was torn down in 1840. The

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on West Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of New Alexander between 2003 and 2020, burning about 6 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15729
2 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15944
6 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15931
22 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15359

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 307 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 307 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Alexander between 1878 and 1967: 166 Animalia, 140 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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 Tringa semipalmata, not of this specimenTringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1878Collector(s): Leonard R. FreemanOhio Valley
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona compressa, not of this specimenLasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1893Sterki, VictorAlliance
A photograph of the species Viola L., not of this specimenViola L.1897Holzinger, J.M.Winona County.
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1901United States Bureau of FisheriesOhio, Cold Run, Columbiana County
A photograph of the species Leuciscus elongatus, not of this specimenLeuciscus elongatus Valenciennes, 18441901E. B. WilliamsonCold Run
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1906Sterki, VictorSebring

All 307 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
Chambersburg2.0 miles18
Adair2.0 miles14
Bridgewater2.8 miles14
Lynchburg3.3 miles14
New Garden3.6 miles14
East Rochester3.7 miles14
Reading3.8 miles18
North Georgetown3.8 miles14

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 AlexanderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134022The 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 1988986. 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.