South Canal, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44444. It stands on Kale Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newton Falls quadrangle. 1,101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1908 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in South Canal
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Newton Falls United Service Organization (USO) Centerlisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away
- Newton Falls Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2025 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
3 figuresSouth Canal fell from 1,346 to 1,101 between 2000 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 1,346 | |
| 2010 | 1,100 | -246 (-18%) |
| 2020 | 1,101 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of South Canal in 2019, burning about 1 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15316 |
| 23 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15315 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 131 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of South Canal between 1890 and 1973: 94 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alternaria panax Whetzel | 1909 | W.P. Warren | Garden of Warren |
![]() | Pleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci | 1927 | F.R. Jones; J.J. Davis | Newton |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1928 | Rood, Almon N. | Braceville Tp., |
![]() | Obovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845) | 1890 | Dean, G W | Newton Falls, mill pond |
![]() | Neogale Gray, 1865 | 1894 | William Harvey Brown | WARREN |
![]() | Poa alsodes A.Gray | 1907 | Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N. | Braceville Twp |
![]() | Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp |
![]() | Centaurea nigrescens Willd. | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx |
![]() | Desmodium canadense (L.) DC. | 1908 | Rood, A.M. | Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls |
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp |
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1909 | not recorded | Newton Falls, lesser branch above city |
![]() | Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864 | 1911 | Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.) | Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 131 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Heights | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Maderite Heights | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| West River Park | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| Riverview | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Newton Falls | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Arlington Heights | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| West View | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rose Park | 1.6 miles | 13 |
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 South Canal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2755085 | The 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 1867467. 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.

















