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Southern Terrace Park, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44408. The Survey maps it on the Columbiana quadrangle.

Southern Terrace Park within Columbiana County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Southern Terrace Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Southern Terrace Park, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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 1879 county history

5,192 words on this township

The county history of 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fairfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fairfield Township - 5,192 words.

Fires nearby

6 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Southern Terrace Park between 2004 and 2016, burning about 12 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 burning4
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
3 June 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5006
9 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2005Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 560 shown

Museums hold 560 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southern Terrace Park between 1882 and 1975: 306 Plantae, 218 Animalia, 35 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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 Athyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.LawsonAthyrium filix-femina var. angustum (Willd.) G.Lawson1885Shafer, J.A.Petersburg
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Solanum dulcamara, not of this specimenSolanum dulcamara L.1882Shafer, J.A.near Petersburg
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale subsp. affine (A.Braun & Engelm.) A.A.Eaton1883Shafer, J.A.near Petersburg
A photograph of the species Levisticum officinale, not of this specimenLevisticum officinale W.D.J.Koch1883Shafer, J.A.Petersburg
A photograph of the species Apocynum androsaemifolium, not of this specimenApocynum androsaemifolium L.1884Shafer, J.A.Near Petersburg Cemetery
A photograph of the species Armoracia rusticana, not of this specimenArmoracia rusticana P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1884Shafer, J.A.Wm. Hills place near Petersburg
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Botrychium dissectum, not of this specimenBotrychium dissectum Spreng.1884Shafer, J.A.near Petersburg
A photograph of the species Carex lupulina, not of this specimenCarex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.1884Shafer, J.A.near Petersburg
A photograph of the species Chelone glabra, not of this specimenChelone glabra L.1884Shafer, J.A.near Petersburg

All 560 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Southern Terrace Park: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Chromium. 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
Kaiser Aluminum/ Columbiana, OhioChromiumProducer
Kaiser RefractoriesManganesePast Producer
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leetonia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Neiheisel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana 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
Columbiana0.8 miles17
Unionville2.5 miles15
Leetonia2.6 miles16
Washingtonville3.2 miles16
Middleton4.1 miles15
Franklin Square4.8 miles15
New Waterford5.6 miles17
East Fairfield5.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2513673. 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.