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

New Garden, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44423. The Survey maps it on the Hanoverton quadrangle.

New Garden 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 Garden, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of New Garden, 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

613 words on this township

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

The following physicians are practicing in the township : at Dungannon, Dr. Patterson, who commenced practice in 1870; at Hanover, Dr. J. Yates, who studied with Dr. Robertson, and was one year at Salineville, and commenced practice in 1843; Dr. Samuel J. Hole, who began practice in Hanover in 1867 ; Dr. A. Battin, who opened an office in 1858 ; Dr. S. S. Robertson, who began practice in 1857 ; soon afterwards went West, and returned to Hanover in 1871; was in practice at Salineville from 1861 to 1867 or 1868; at New Garden, Dr. A. Teegarden, who has practiced in that place since 1869.

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 Hanover Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of New Garden between 2003 and 2020, burning about 87 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
3 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15729
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 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined78 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesCOLUMBIANA
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15510
31 March 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 457 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Garden between 1878 and 1975: 274 Animalia, 165 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., 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 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 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 Chamerion angustifolium, not of this specimenChamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch1885Shafer, J.A.N.Y.P.U.O.RR, East of Salem
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asplenium filix-femina, not of this specimenAsplenium filix-femina (L.) Bernh.1887E. Wilkinson; CallSalem, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aster prenanthoides, not of this specimenAster prenanthoides Muhl. ex Willd.1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth1887E. WilkinsonSalem

All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Garden in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008FloodNew Garden$50,000Emergency management reported flooding of roads and railroad tracks in New Garden.
May 1996Flash FloodNew Garden$50,000no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Garden$10,000State official reported multiple trees down on State Route 9.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Garden$5,000State official reported multiple large trees down in New Garden.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Garden$2,500State official reported trees down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Garden$2,000Emergency management reported trees down.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Garden-A state official reported trees down near state Route 172 and Sanor Rd.
April 2002HailNew Garden-no account filed
June 1998HailNew Garden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbiana 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
Adair1.6 miles14
Guilford Lake2.2 miles14
Winona2.8 miles14
Guilford Lake Estates2.9 miles15
Hanoverton3.1 miles14
Guilford3.2 miles15
New Alexander3.6 miles14
Bridgewater4.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057866. 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.

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.