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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.

Phalanx within Trumbull County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Phalanx, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Phalanx, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

6 since 2019

The 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
29 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15316
23 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15315
21 June 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15314
8 April 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15312
13 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15313
20 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15310

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 151 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Pleosphaerulina briosiana PollacciPleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci1927F.R. Jones; J.J. DavisNewton
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1928Rood, Almon N.Braceville Tp.,
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1890Dean, G WNewton Falls, mill pond
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Poa alsodes, not of this specimenPoa alsodes A.Gray1907Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Centaurea nigrescens, not of this specimenCentaurea nigrescens Willd.1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx
A photograph of the species Desmodium canadense, not of this specimenDesmodium canadense (L.) DC.1908Rood, A.M.Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909not recordedNewton Falls, lesser branch above city
A photograph of the species Catocala piatrix, not of this specimenCatocala piatrix Grote, 18641911Zahrobsky, 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 2011

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011FloodPhalanx$600,000Heavy 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 2019Tornado (EF1)Phalanx$250,000An 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 2019Thunderstorm WindPhalanx$1,000A power pole was blown down on State Route 534 in Southington Township.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Shihold1.3 miles12
Braceville Ridge1.7 miles13
Southington Estates2.6 miles12
Braceville2.6 miles13
Delightful3.3 miles12
Southington3.5 miles12
Arhaven Estates3.9 miles13
Center World4.3 miles13

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 PhalanxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24885576The 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.