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

Newman, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44647. The Survey maps it on the Massillon quadrangle.

Newman within Stark County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Newman, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Newman, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

5,804 words on this township

Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys, published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Lawrence Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The enrly Christians were Methodists and Presbyterians. Meetings wero hold in homes and school-bouses till 1837. The first building for worship was erected In 1815, by the Presbyterians. It wns a log structure, and upon ground later known as Newman's Creek grave-yard. Rev. James Adams was the first minister in charge. East of the river were no ohurohes; the German Reformed and Lutherans wore most numerous. Wier and Faust ministered to their spiritual wants. Catholicism had early adherents. Their first sorvices wero hold in 1830, in a buildiug raised on Philip McArc's farm. This wns used till their church at Fulton was built.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys, published 1875.

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

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Newman between 2005 and 2005, burning about 8 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	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
13 April 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 372 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 372 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newman between 1836 and 1975: 323 Animalia, 41 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bangham, R. V. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Carex intumescens Rudge	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	not recorded	Canton
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Molothrus ater ater (Boddaert, 1783)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Picoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton

All 372 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Newman: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Republic Steel/ Massillon, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Aj Diana Sons Inc Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Diana Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Massillon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ries Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ries Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newman in 1 storm report between 2020 and 2020: 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Newman	-	Facebook video of six large pine trees down along Beaumont Avenue NW on the northwest side of Massillon.

Every storm recorded in Stark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forty Corners Village	1.0 miles	18
Pauls (historical)	1.2 miles	18
Spring Valley Estates	1.6 miles	18
Sherwood (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Rolling Hills Village	2.0 miles	18
Crystal Springs	2.1 miles	18
Sippo	2.2 miles	18
Crystal Lake Park	2.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057872. 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.