Nova, Ohio
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44859. The Survey maps it on the Nova quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1908 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
11 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS New London quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Nova quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Nova quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Nova quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Lorain quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
3 since 2020The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nova between 2020 and 2020, burning about 6 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15782 |
| 8 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15905 |
| 7 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15901 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 117 shownMuseums hold 117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Nova between 1897 and 1971: 80 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. S. Percival, Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea, David F. Van Haverbeke 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Euphorbia maculata L. | 1897 | Ashcroft, G.B.; O., Berea | Albion |
![]() | Mentha spicata L. | 1897 | G. B. Ashcroft | Albion |
![]() | Cylindrosporium padi P.Karst. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles |
| Septoria pyricola Desm. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles | |
![]() | Sphaeropsis malorum (Berk.) Berk. | 1905 | Fair D. R. | Ruggles |
![]() | Amphiagrion saucium (Burmeister, 1839) | 1916 | not recorded | Sullivan |
![]() | Conocephalus attenuatus (Scudder, 1869) | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Vermilion River, TR 608 RM 62.1, 1.14 miles west of Savannah OH, Clear Creek township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
![]() | Catostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
![]() | Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865 | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
![]() | Semotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818) | 1928 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Jerome Fork tributary, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township |
![]() | Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Muddy Fork, (headwaters) Jackson township, near Polk, Jackson township |
All 117 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nova: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biglow | Clay | Producer |
Storms nearby
11 since 2002The National Weather Service names Nova in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | Flood | Nova | $500,000 | Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to widespread flooding across Ashland County. Rainfall totals across the county ranged from one to three inches on February 27th and 28th. Up to ten inches of heavy snow was on the ground at the onset of the rain. This snow rapidly melted as temperatures warmed into the 50s on the 28th. Up to an additional inch of water equivalent rainfall was released from the melted snow. Hundreds of homes in the county sustained damage, mainly from basement flooding. Many roads had to be closed because of the the flooding. |
| November 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Nova | $50,000 | An EF0 tornado touched down about a half mile west of Nova. The tornado knocked over or uprooted many trees along it's path. The tornado damaged the roof of a store on the west end of Nova. A farm supply store along the railroad tracks on the north end of the town lost a section of roofing. A nearby grain bin was also damaged. The tornado lifted just after crossing State Route 511. The damage path for this storm was just over a half mile in length. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nova | $50,000 | Many trees were reported down. Several homes were damaged after trees fell onto them. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Nova | $25,000 | Golf ball size hail was observed. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nova | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees near Nova and Sullivan. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nova | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Nova | - | Nickel sized hail was observed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Nova | - | Thunderstorms produced a swath of nickel to quarter size hail. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Nova | - | Thunderstorms produced nickel size hail. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Nova | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nova | - | Penny size hail was observed. |
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.
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 Nova | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2002726 | 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 1077533. 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.





















