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New Waterford, Ohio
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Unity Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44445. The Survey maps it on the East Palestine quadrangle. 1,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Waterford fell from 1,238 to 1,194 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,238 | |
| 2020 | 1,194 | -44 (-4%) |
Then and now
1907 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 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.
- 1907 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Columbiana 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 East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Palestine 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 East Palestine quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
8,241 words on this townshipHistory of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Unity Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Northwest from Beeson, John Sands settled about 1803, and was soon after joined by Aaron and Isaac Chamberlain, the latter living on the farm now occupied by Wm. C. Baker, who came to this locality in 1816. In this neighborhood lived, before 1805, James Armstrong, John Bennett, Stephen Ogden, and Benjamin Reeves, and a little farther north, in 1808, Joseph Taylor, of Washington Co., Pa., became a settler. He had sons named Joseph, who yet lives near New Waterford, and Jacob, living in Middleton township. The latter is the father of Professor A. Y. Taylor, a well-known educator of the county.
Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.
Peter Eyster was an early settler on section 11, and afterwards most of his family settled there. At a somewhat later day Isaac Earley became a resident of section 15, on the place now occupied by B. F. Earley. Other sons, H. Y. M. and R. S., live near New Waterford. At the latter place lived Joseph Taylor, a well-known pioneer, and some of his sons yet reside there. In the same neighborhood, David McClaskey, James Nevin, and the Mercer family were among the old and prominent settlers. The latter homestead is now occupied by Cyrus Mercer.
Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.
The completion, in 1852, of the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Railroad greatly promoted the interests of the township, and was the means of directing attention to its mineral resources, and their subsequent development. The road enters Unity a little north of the middle of section 25, and has a general westerly direction about five miles, when it passes up the valley of Bull Creek northwest, passing out near the corner of section 18. Two convenient stations have been provided, one at East Palestine, in the eastern part, and another at New Waterford, four miles west.
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 Unity Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.
Fires near this place
14 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of New Waterford between 2005 and 2020, burning about 24 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 866 |
| 3 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.6 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 706 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 484 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 484 specimens collected within 10 miles of New Waterford between 1882 and 1975: 252 Plantae, 206 Animalia, 26 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bright, J. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson | 1885 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
 | Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
 | Polyporus galactinus Berk. | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
 | Solanum dulcamara L. | 1882 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
 | Equisetum hyemale subsp. affine (A.Braun & Engelm.) A.A.Eaton | 1883 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
 | Levisticum officinale W.D.J.Koch | 1883 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
 | Apocynum androsaemifolium L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | Near Petersburg Cemetery |
 | Armoracia rusticana P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | Wm. Hills place near Petersburg |
 | Botrychium dissectum Spreng. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
 | Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
 | Chelone glabra L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | near Petersburg |
 | Clematis virginiana L. | 1884 | Shafer, J.A. | Petersburg |
All 484 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Waterford: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coppock Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Coppock Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Waterford in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Waterford | $5,000 | Large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2011 | Hail | New Waterford | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Waterford | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | New Waterford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middleton | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| East Fairfield | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| Clearwood Court | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| Unity | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Mill Rock | 3.5 miles | 17 | |
| Rogers | 3.8 miles | 15 | |
| Signal | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| East Palestine | 4.0 miles | 17 |
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 Waterford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2525514 | 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 1065139. 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.