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Robertsville, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Paris Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44670. The Survey maps it on the Robertsville quadrangle. 293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Robertsville within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

Robertsville fell from 331 to 293 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010331
2020293-38 (-11%)

Then and now

1909 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Robertsville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Robertsville, surveyed 1909

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 county-history sources

1,062 words on this township

Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys, published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Paris Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

To tho southeast lies Paris Township. In accordance with a petition presented by Rudolph Bair, it was incorporated on tho first of April, 1818, and tbo first election was held on tho lUh of April, in tho town of Paris. Tho surface along the Black Creek to the west of tho division is comparatively level ; to tbo south- Ward bills rise lo greet tbe vision in constant succession, and they are rich in their store of mineral wealth, requiring only ibc construction of an already surveyed railroad lo develop and market their enormous deposits. The proposed railroad passes through tbo villages of Paris and Robertsville, and may yet waken ibcir dormant energies. Tho grade is easy ; the gauge is narrow ; estimated oost per mile, eight thousand dollars.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Stark County, Ohio, Compiled, Drawn and Published from Personal Examinations and Surveys, published 1875.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Paris Township.

Fires near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Robertsville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 14 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15929
26 October 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2361

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 208 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 208 specimens collected within 10 miles of Robertsville between 1875 and 1975: 191 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T., 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
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1875not recordedNo specific locality recorded.
A photograph of the species Drummondia prorepens, not of this specimenDrummondia prorepens (Hedw.) E.Britton1886not recorded
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1886not recorded
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1886J. B. Hatcher
A photograph of the species Ricasolia quercizans, not of this specimenRicasolia quercizans (Michx.) Stizenb.1886J. B. Hatcher
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta viridis, not of this specimenAlasmidonta viridis (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Anodontoides ferussacianus, not of this specimenAnodontoides ferussacianus (I.Lea, 1834)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1890Sterki, VictorCanton
A photograph of the species Amnicola cincinnatiensis, not of this specimenAmnicola cincinnatiensis (J.G.Anthony, 1840)1900Stearns, Robert E CCanton
A photograph of the species Pisidium moitessierianum, not of this specimenPisidium moitessierianum Paladilhe, 18661900Anson A. HinkleyNimishillen Creek, Canton, North America
Pleuroceridae1900Stearns, Robert E CCanton
Nicrophorus tomentosus (Weber, 1801)1912S. L. ThompsonCanton

All 208 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Robertsville: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Clay, Coal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Oneida Sand and Gravel, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pleasant Valley Drive Clay PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Stark PitClay, CoalProducer
Minerva PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Minerva PitClayPast Producer
Motts and Dehoff PitClayPast Producer
Pleasant Valley Drive Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Stark Ceramics, Incorporated PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Robertsville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRobertsville$8,000The Emergency Manager and local media relayed reports of trees down in Robertsville.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRobertsville$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and a few large tree limbs.
June 2002HailRobertsville$5,000Nickel size hail was reported east of Robertsville near Minerva.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRobertsville$4,000Police reported a tree down on Line Street and the public reported large tree limbs down on Route 30 in Minerva City.
April 2004HailRobertsville$2,000Quarter size hail was observed southeast of Robertsville near Minerva.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindRobertsville$1,000Two large tree limbs down.

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
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.3 miles18
Paris2.7 miles18
Myers3.1 miles18
Mapleton3.2 miles16
Belfort4.5 miles18
Marks (historical)4.8 miles17
Minerva5.0 miles14
East Canton5.2 miles17

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 RobertsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472042The 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 1057957. 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.

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.