Petersburg, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1907 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.

• 1907 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Columbiana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1951 USGS New Middletown quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS New Middletown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg between 2014 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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:

• Subrosa (historical)
• New Middletown
• Ginger Hill
• Meadowood
• Lowellville
• Poland Center

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 310 specimens collected within 10 miles of Petersburg between 1853 and 1952: 158 Animalia, 151 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Baird, S. F., Baird, SF, Baird, Spencer Fullerton 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
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson	1885	Shafer, J.A.	Petersburg
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	W. H. Olney	Poland
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1853	not recorded	Poland, Yellow Creek
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1853	C. Kirtland	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 310 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Petersburg: 16 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersburg in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning County

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 1061535. 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.