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

Sagamore Hills, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sagamore Hills Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44067. The Survey maps it on the Northfield quadrangle.

Sagamore Hills 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 Sagamore Hills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sagamore Hills, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

3 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sagamore Hills between 1994 and 2006, burning about 0 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkKEEBLER
17 May 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkBOSTON
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCuyahoga Valley National ParkSTUMPY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 703 shown

Museums hold 703 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sagamore Hills between 1877 and 1973: 676 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Hall, Adams J. M. R., 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
Specimen of Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1893C. RutterCuyahoga River, Penisula, Ohio
Specimen of Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)Sphaerium simile (Say, 1817)1928not recordedBrandywine Brook, Hudson, North America
Specimen of Lycopodium lucidulum Michx.Lycopodium lucidulum Michx.1973George T. Jones1 mile west of Everett, Richfield Township
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 Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1887B. SanfordHudson
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1889Reade M. C.Hudson
A photograph of the species Scolopax minor, not of this specimenScolopax minor J.F.Gmelin, 17891892Beryl HodgeHudson
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893not recordedPeninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893WoolmanCuyahoga River, Peninsula, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1893not recordedPeninsula
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1897Ashcroft, G.B.Western Reserve; Berea
A photograph of the species Xylaria polymorpha, not of this specimenXylaria polymorpha (Pers.) Grev.1897Read M.Hudson

All 703 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Sagamore Hills in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1999Tornado (F0)Sagamore Hills$75,000The Cuyahoga County tornado weakened as it crossed the county line near Sagamore Hills. The tornado traveled approximately two miles in Summit County before dissipating as it approached Highway 82 from the north. The damage path was non-continuous. Several dozen trees were downed and a couple houses received minor roof damage. Fallen trees also damaged three cars.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindSagamore Hills$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed four trees.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindSagamore Hills$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and one large limb.
September 2012HailSagamore Hills-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2011HailSagamore Hills-Thunderstorms produced a swath of quarter sized hal.
June 2008HailSagamore Hills-Penny size hail was observed.
September 2002HailSagamore Hills-Dime size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Chaffee (historical)1.1 miles15
Northfield Center1.5 miles15
Emmons Corner1.9 miles15
Little York2.7 miles15
Brandywine2.9 miles15
Northfield3.1 miles15
Macedonia3.2 miles15
Boston3.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048402. 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.

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.