Newtons, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Sullivan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Pioneer History of Medina County, published 1861; History of Medina County and Ohio, Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Medina County, Giving an Account of Its Aboriginal Inhabitants ... Pioneer Incidents, Its Growth, Its Improvements, Organization of the County ... Biographical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc. .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Newtons (historical) between 2019 and 2020, burning about 19 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Homerville
• Homer
• Esselburn

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 159 specimens collected within 10 miles of Newtons (historical) between 1888 and 1975: 139 Animalia, 11 Fungi, 9 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BJ Zahuranec & party, Bosler, C.B. Wilson 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
	Diatrype virescens (Schwein.) Cooke	1906	Wilson, C. B.	Penfield, Ohio
	Trimmatostroma Corda	1907	C.B. Wilson
	Botrychium virginianum (L.) Sw.	1975	Jones, G.T.	In moist deciduous woods near Spencer Lake, Spencer Twp.
	Lilium canadense L.	1888	E. Barrick	Chatham
	Aleurodiscus oakesii (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Cooke	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Lobaria amplissima (Scop.) Forssell	1894	Francis D Kelsey	Penfield
	Mnium stellare Hedw.	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Mycosphaerella macularis (Fr.) J.Schröt.	1894	Kelsey F. D.	Penfield
	Rhodobryum ontariense (Kindb.) Paris	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield
	Stereum fasciatum (Schwein.) Fr.	1894	Kelsey F. D.	Penfield
	Stereum ostrea (Blume & T.Nees) Fr.	1894	F. D. Kelsey	Penfield.

All 159 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067471. 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.