Phalanx, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Braceville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44470. It stands on Tinker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Southington quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 89 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
12 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.
- 1905 USGS Bristolville quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Bristolville quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Southington quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Southington quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Southington quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Southington quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
6 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Phalanx between 2019 and 2019, burning about 16 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15316 |
| 23 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15315 |
| 21 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15314 |
| 8 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15312 |
| 13 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15313 |
| 20 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15310 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 151 shownMuseums hold 151 specimens collected within 10 miles of Phalanx between 1890 and 1973: 114 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alternaria panax Whetzel | 1909 | W.P. Warren | Garden of Warren |
![]() | Pleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci | 1927 | F.R. Jones; J.J. Davis | Newton |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1928 | Rood, Almon N. | Braceville Tp., |
![]() | Obovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845) | 1890 | Dean, G W | Newton Falls, mill pond |
![]() | Neogale Gray, 1865 | 1894 | William Harvey Brown | WARREN |
![]() | Poa alsodes A.Gray | 1907 | Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N. | Braceville Twp |
![]() | Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp |
![]() | Centaurea nigrescens Willd. | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx |
![]() | Desmodium canadense (L.) DC. | 1908 | Rood, A.M. | Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls |
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp |
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1909 | not recorded | Newton Falls, lesser branch above city |
![]() | Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864 | 1911 | Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.) | Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 151 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2011The National Weather Service names Phalanx in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 | Phalanx | $600,000 | Heavy rain and rapid snow melt led to a rapid rise in the Mahoning River in Trumbull County. Official river forecast points of Leavittsburg and Warren obseved moderate flooding, while a small tributary Eagle Creek at Braceveille saw major flooding. Heavy rainfall and around six inches of heavy snowmelt lead to the river rise. Several people had be rescued from homes and vehicles as the water came up. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Phalanx | $250,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down in far northeast Portage County|southwest of Southington. The tornado briefly tracked northeast|before turning to the east-southeast into Trumbull County. The tornado destroyed|several outbuildings and produced extensive tree damage,|especially about a mile south of Southington. The tornado had an|intermittent path across northern Warren before lifting near the|Trumbull Country Club. |
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Phalanx | $1,000 | A power pole was blown down on State Route 534 in Southington Township. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shihold | 1.3 miles | 12 | |
| Braceville Ridge | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Southington Estates | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Braceville | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Delightful | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Southington | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Arhaven Estates | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Center World | 4.3 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 Phalanx | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q24885576 | 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 1062937. 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.
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.























