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

North Jackson, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44451. The Survey maps it on the Canfield quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

North Jackson within Mahoning County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of North Jackson, surveyed 1986

Topographic sheet of North Jackson, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 146 shown

Museums hold 146 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Jackson between 1883 and 1974: 121 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 12 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B Withers, B. J. Crandall 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
Hypoxylon glomeratum Cooke	1920	C. G. Lloyd	Lloyd
Agaricus sylvicola (Vittad.) Peck	1964	B. J. Crandall	Shawnee State Park
Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C.Tul.	1964	B.J.Crandall	Shawnee State Park
Thalictrum dioicum L.	1883	Meissner, C.A.	Brier Hill, O
Asplenium trichomanes L.	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Lantermans Falls near Youngstown
Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Lantermans Falls, near Youngstown
Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Lanterman Falls, near Youngstown
Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Mill Creek just below Iona Falls, near Youngstown
Aplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.	1896	Ransom, R.	Perkins (Corners)
Arigomphus villosipes (Selys, 1854)	1900	E. Williamson	[Not Stated]
Parascalops breweri (Bachman, 1842)	1901	not recorded	Ellsworth
Eragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	1909	Vickers, E.W.	Mahoning River, Berlin Twp

All 146 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1995

The National Weather Service names North Jackson in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 1999	Tornado (F1)	North Jackson	$150,000	A tornado skipped along a path approximately four to five miles long in Jackson Township. Several homes received structural damage including one that was moved slightly off its foundation. Another home had its garage door and contents destroyed and a few other homes had siding torn off. Power lines and several dozen trees were also knocked down along the path of the tornado.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	North Jackson	$5,000	Three large trees were reported down. Also, a barn had its siding blown off.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	North Jackson	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
May 2022	Hail	North Jackson	-	Penny-size hail about four-miles south of Lordstown, just west of the I-76/I-80 interchange.
September 2012	Hail	North Jackson	-	Quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2006	Hail	North Jackson	-	Penny size hail was observed.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	North Jackson	-	Large limbs were downed.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning 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
Stony Ridge	2.9 miles	13
Rosemont	3.0 miles	11
West Austintown	3.4 miles	13
Taylor Corners	3.5 miles	13
Geeburg	3.7 miles	13
Camp Park	4.1 miles	13
Ohltown	4.3 miles	13
Ohlton (historical)	4.4 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 North Jackson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7055725	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 1065169. 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.

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.