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North Lima, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44452. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Columbiana quadrangle. 1,369 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.

North Lima within Mahoning County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The 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.

Topographic sheet of North Lima, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Lima, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of North Lima between 2019 and 2019, burning about 0 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 burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15291

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 424 shown

Museums hold 424 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Lima between 1853 and 1974: 248 Animalia, 170 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B Withers 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850Cottus bairdii Girard, 18501853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
Specimen of Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Shafer, J.A.Petersburg
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1853not recordedPoland, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651853S. BairdYellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma camurum, not of this specimenEtheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191853C. KirtlandYellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma maculatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 18401853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1853S. BairdYellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 424 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of North Lima: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Afc PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Afc PitClay, CoalProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

6 since 2002

The National Weather Service names North Lima in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007LightningNorth Lima1 killedA 66 year old male was struck and killed by lightning outside of his house. His home was on New Buffalo Road approximately two miles northwest of North Lima.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindNorth Lima$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few large tree limbs.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindNorth Lima-Trees downed in North Lima and Beaver Township area.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindNorth Lima-Shingles blown off roof and several trees downed in North Lima. Damage was associated with strong convective gusts generated by rain showers.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Lima-Large, healthy tree limbs were snapped off during passage of squall line in North Lima.
August 2002HailNorth Lima-Dime size hail was reported two miles north of North Lima.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Five Points1.1 miles17
Snyder (historical)1.3 miles17
Willow Crest1.8 miles17
East Lewistown2.1 miles17
Morgantown2.2 miles17
Eureka2.6 miles17
Woodworth2.8 miles17
Porters Corners3.0 miles17

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 LimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472389The 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 1065172. 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.