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

Richfield Heights, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44286. The Survey maps it on the West Richfield quadrangle.

Richfield Heights within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Richfield Heights, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Richfield Heights, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

7 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Richfield Heights between 1993 and 2012, burning about 1 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRIVERVIEW ROAD
31 August 1993Smokingunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkAKRONS
30 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkRAILROAD
13 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBRUNTY
22 June 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkERDOS
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 667 shown

Museums hold 667 specimens collected within 10 miles of Richfield Heights between 1877 and 1973: 622 Animalia, 39 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Black, A. Hall, A. Woolman 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 Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)Bombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1904W. WarnerCuyahoga Falls
A photograph of the species Empidonax flaviventris, not of this specimenEmpidonax flaviventris (W.M.Baird & S.F.Baird, 1843)1877A. HallCuyahoga
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1889K. O. FoltzCopley Swamp, near Akron
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis L.H.Bailey1892Werner, W.C.Cuyahoga Falls
A photograph of the species Condylura cristata, not of this specimenCondylura cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1892Clark, D.Cuyahoga Falls Ave., Akron, Summit Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081893Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Summit, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)1893not recordedSilver Lake
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Labidesthes sicculus, not of this specimenLabidesthes sicculus (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Ohio

All 667 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Broadview1.0 miles21
Bath1.1 miles21
Bath Center2.5 miles21
Richfield2.5 miles21
Osborn Corners2.6 miles21
West Richfield2.8 miles21
Ira2.9 miles21
Everett3.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049119. 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.