River Styx, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 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.

• 1904 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1906 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Seville quadrangle1:24000

History of Medina County and Ohio, Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ... a History of Medina County, Giving an Account of Its Aboriginal Inhabitants ... Pioneer Incidents, Its Growth, Its Improvements, Organization of the County ... Biographical Sketches; Portraits of Some of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Etc., Etc. .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Guilford 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 1 fire within 5 miles of River Styx in 2009, burning under an acre 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:

• Acme
• Blake
• Boneta
• Clark Corners
• Sharon Center
• Wadsworth

Every fire recorded in Medina County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 198 specimens collected within 10 miles of River Styx between 1884 and 1975: 181 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Roberts, Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05], B Zahuranec & party 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
	Contopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	not recorded
	Camptosorus rhizophyllus (L.) Link	1894	Watson, J.R.	Medina Co.
	Aquilegia canadensis L.	1897	Ashcroft,G.B. s.n. [1897-05]	[label: Flora of the Western Reserve] Medina O. [Ohio]
	Sciurus niger Linnaeus, 1758	1884	unknown	Medina
	Halictus confusus confusus	1885	H. E. Summers	Medina
	Plantago cordata Lam.	1891	F. E. Lloyd	Selsville, north of Columbus
	Culicoides guttipennis (Coquillett, 1901)	1897	J. Hine	Medina
	Hinea Townsend, 1916	1897	J. Hine	Medina
	Aplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.	1898	Illegible collector name	Medina
	Quiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 1819	1899	A. Roberts
	Tabanus pruniosus Hine, 1900	1899	[Not Stated]	Medina
	Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)	1905	not recorded	Hinckley, Medina Co., Ohio, USA

All 198 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of River Styx: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Medina 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 1071119. 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.