Somerdale, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1912 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.

• 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1912 USGS Dover quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Dover 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
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mineral City quadrangle1:24000

The county history of 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Somerdale between 2003 and 2019, burning about 81 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:

• Johnston
• Egypt (historical)
• Mount Tabor
• Valley Junction
• Zoarville
• Dutchtown

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Museums hold 519 specimens collected within 10 miles of Somerdale between 1851 and 1973: 420 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 13 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W Cusick, A. Cibula, A. Cobula 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
	Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895	1894	G. Marston	Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
	Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896	1894	G. Marston	Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
	Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858	1895	G. Marston	from spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki)
	Amelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Anemone canadensis L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Cardamine douglassii Britton	1851	Wolle, J.	Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
	Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
	Delphinium tricorne Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Dover
	Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Hydrophyllum virginianum L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Silene virginica L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 519 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Somerdale: 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 Tuscarawas County

The National Weather Service names Somerdale in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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 1046427. 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.