Reading, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1909 1994

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.

• 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
• 1909 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Homeworth quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Knox Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Reading between 2009 and 2020, burning about 3 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.

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:

• Homeworth
• Bridgewater
• North Georgetown
• Valley
• Moultrie
• Adair

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 259 specimens collected within 10 miles of Reading between 1878 and 1967: 175 Animalia, 83 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Buker, W.E.; Henry, L.K., Catherine D. Hemphill 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
	Tringa semipalmata semipalmata (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1878	Collector(s): Leonard R. Freeman	Ohio Valley
	Zenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1883	not recorded	Beloit
	Anodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Lampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 1820	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Lasmigona compressa (I.Lea, 1829)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Lasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Strophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)	1893	Sterki, Victor	Alliance
	Viola L.	1897	Holzinger, J.M.	Winona County.
	Leuciscus elongatus Valenciennes, 1844	1901	E. B. Williamson	Cold Run
	Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1906	Sterki, Victor	Sebring
	Eurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)	1906	Sterki, Victor	Sebring

All 259 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Reading: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062961. 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.