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

Southington, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Southington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44470. The Survey maps it on the Southington quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Southington within Trumbull County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Southington, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Southington, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

4 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Southington between 2019 and 2019, burning about 16 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 burning3
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
21 June 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15314
8 April 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15312
13 April 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15313
20 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15310

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 190 shown

Museums hold 190 specimens collected within 10 miles of Southington between 1890 and 1975: 151 Animalia, 37 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Pleosphaerulina briosiana PollacciPleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci1927F.R. Jones; J.J. DavisNewton
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1928Rood, Almon N.Braceville Tp.,
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1890Dean, G WNewton Falls, mill pond
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Erigeron annuus, not of this specimenErigeron annuus (L.) Pers.1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Erigeron strigosus, not of this specimenErigeron strigosus var. strigosus1901I. E. DiehlOakfield
A photograph of the species Poa alsodes, not of this specimenPoa alsodes A.Gray1907Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Amelanchier arborea, not of this specimenAmelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Centaurea nigrescens, not of this specimenCentaurea nigrescens Willd.1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx
A photograph of the species Desmodium canadense, not of this specimenDesmodium canadense (L.) DC.1908Rood, A.M.Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1908Rood, A.N.Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp

All 190 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 2002

The National Weather Service names Southington in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindSouthington1 hurtA falling tree struck a car traveling on U.S. Route 422 near Southington. The driver of the car lost control causing the vehicle to roll over. The driver had to be hospitalized for injuries.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSouthington$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
April 2002HailSouthington$10,000Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSouthington$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
April 2024HailSouthington-Hail up to quarter-size in Southington.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindSouthington-Numerous trees downed and blocked roads about six-miles northeast of Windham.
May 2010HailSouthington-Penny sized hail was observed.
July 2008HailSouthington-Penny size hail was observed.

Every storm recorded in Trumbull 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
Southington Estates1.0 miles12
Delightful2.2 miles12
Stroups2.4 miles12
State Road3.1 miles12
Shihold3.3 miles12
Phalanx3.5 miles12
Wassie (historical)4.1 miles12
Herner Corners4.7 miles12

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 SouthingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7570836The 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 1065360. 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.