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

Pigeon Run, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Tuscarawas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44647. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Navarre quadrangle.

Pigeon Run within Stark County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Pigeon Run, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Pigeon Run, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1881 county history

818 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Tuscarawas Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Tuscarawas Township - 818 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 219 shown

Museums hold 219 specimens collected within 10 miles of Pigeon Run between 1875 and 1975: 190 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Borror, D.J. 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 Gloeosporium venetum Speg.Gloeosporium venetum Speg.1890J.T. Rice
Specimen of unnamed1907Bruce Fink
Specimen of Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872Catocala flebilis Grote, 18721940not recordedNavarre
A photograph of the species Theliderma metanevra, not of this specimenTheliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)1875Sterki, VictorBeach City
A photograph of the species Lanius borealis, not of this specimenLanius borealis borealis1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381889Harry C. OberholserPines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Icterus spurius, not of this specimenIcterus spurius (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs

All 219 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Pigeon Run: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Republic Steel/ Massillon, OhioIronProducer
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Massillon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Northern Ohio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms nearby

1 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Pigeon Run in 1 storm report between 1998 and 1998: 1 hail. 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
June 1998HailPigeon Run-Large hail fell in Tuscarawas Township and in the towns of Brewster (0.75") and Navarre (0.75").

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Camp Creek1.0 miles18
Crossroads1.5 miles18
Rhodes (historical)1.8 miles18
Moffitt Heights2.0 miles18
Westarado2.3 miles18
North Brewster2.3 miles18
Pinn (historical)2.7 miles18
Elton2.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061540. 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.

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.