New Salisbury, Ohio
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Yellow Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43968. It stands on Salisbury Run. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
22 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wellsville 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 Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Wellsville 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 Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
8 since 2014The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Salisbury between 2014 and 2020, 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15281 |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7426 |
| 31 March 2014 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | West Virginia Division of Forestry | RACE TRACK ROAD |
| 13 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15488 |
| 1 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11745 |
| 28 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9487 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 232 shownMuseums hold 232 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Salisbury between 1889 and 1970: 202 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 10 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Albert Peyron, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon | 1916 | E.K. Seymour | Lower campus |
![]() | Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr. | 1923 | F.O. Grover | On Campus |
![]() | Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763) | 1889 | A. D. Mac Gillivroy | Salineville |
![]() | Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793) | 1889 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840) | 1891 | not recorded | ||
| Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864) | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773) | 1892 | not recorded | Salineville |
| Megachile mendica Cresson, 1878 | 1892 | unknown | Salineville | |
![]() | Polyporus luridus Kalchbr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | Spring Grove |
![]() | Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | not recorded | East Liverpool |
| Panicum virgatum L. | 1909 | Vickers, E.W. | near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River | |
| Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link | 1909 | Vickers, E.W. | WV side of Ohio River across river from Wellsville, Ohio |
All 232 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
3 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Salisbury: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarion Fire Clay | Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum | Occurrence | 1840 | |
| H.K. Porter Brick Plant | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wellsville Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highlandtown | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Vulcan | 3.7 miles | 22 | |
| Haysville (historical) | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wellsville | 4.7 miles | 22 | |
| East Salineville (historical) | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hillcrest | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Glasgow | 5.1 miles | 20 | |
| Salineville | 5.8 miles | 13 |
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 Salisbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134043 | The 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 1063413. 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.




























