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

North Shore Cottage Area, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44656. It lies in Spring Valley. The Survey maps it on the Mineral City quadrangle.

North Shore Cottage Area within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of North Shore Cottage Area, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of North Shore Cottage Area, surveyed 1912

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.

In the 1884 county history

3,479 words on this township

The county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Warren Township covers formation, change of boundaries, the pioneers, indians, topographyone leg creek, new cumberland.

Read the chapter on Warren Township - 3,479 words.

Fires nearby

9 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Shore Cottage Area between 2003 and 2019, burning about 37 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 burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12906
16 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11234
25 March 2003Debris and open burning7.9 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15058
1 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 401 shown

Museums hold 401 specimens collected within 10 miles of North Shore Cottage Area between 1883 and 1973: 334 Animalia, 64 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, Bolin, F. A. (Franklin A.), Charles G. Oliver 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 Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 18951894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896Pisidium fallax Sterki, 18961894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 18581895G. Marstonfrom spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki)
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1883Sterki, VictorTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Lasmigona complanata, not of this specimenLasmigona complanata (Barnes, 1823)1883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Theliderma cylindrica, not of this specimenTheliderma cylindrica (Say, 1817)1883Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1884Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1884Sterki, VictorNew Philadelphia

All 401 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Glens Cottage Area0.9 miles17
New Cumberland1.1 miles17
Rockford4.1 miles16
Johnston4.8 miles17
Somerdale4.8 miles17
Mount Tabor5.0 miles17
Egypt (historical)5.2 miles17
Roswell5.4 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122551812The 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 1960702. 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.