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.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1909 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Lisbon 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
- 1959 USGS Hanoverton quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Hanoverton quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Hanoverton quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
613 words on this townshipHistory 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 2003Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15729 |
| 17 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | COLUMBIANA |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15510 |
| 31 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 March 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 457 shownRegional 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1887 | ? | Dense woods, Salem. |
![]() | Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato | 1887 | Wilkinson, E. | Salem |
![]() | Alternaria Nees | 1904 | D.F. Yenghing | |
![]() | Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1878 | Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman | Ohio Valley |
![]() | Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1883 | not recorded | Beloit |
![]() | Asclepias incarnata L. | 1884 | E. Wilkinson | Salem |
![]() | Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. | 1884 | E. Wilkinson | Salem |
![]() | Chamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch | 1885 | Shafer, J.A. | N.Y.P.U.O.RR, East of Salem |
![]() | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1887 | E. Wilkinson | Salem |
![]() | Asplenium filix-femina (L.) Bernh. | 1887 | E. Wilkinson; Call | Salem, Ohio. |
![]() | Aster prenanthoides Muhl. ex Willd. | 1887 | Wilkinson, E. | Salem |
![]() | Athyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth | 1887 | E. Wilkinson | Salem |
All 457 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flood | New Garden | $50,000 | Emergency management reported flooding of roads and railroad tracks in New Garden. |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | New Garden | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Garden | $10,000 | State official reported multiple trees down on State Route 9. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Garden | $5,000 | State official reported multiple large trees down in New Garden. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Garden | $2,500 | State official reported trees down. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Garden | $2,000 | Emergency management reported trees down. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Garden | - | A state official reported trees down near state Route 172 and Sanor Rd. |
| April 2002 | Hail | New Garden | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | New Garden | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adair | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Guilford Lake | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Winona | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Guilford Lake Estates | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hanoverton | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Guilford | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| New Alexander | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Bridgewater | 4.1 miles | 14 |
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.

























