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Spring Grove, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Liverpool Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43968. It stands on Jethroe Run. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle.

Spring Grove within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Spring Grove, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Spring Grove, surveyed 1904

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Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Liverpool township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 - Liverpool Township

Musical Organizations

The first band organized in the town dated its existence from early in 1850, when J. L. Rule instructed a chosen few, and remained as instructor until the enterprise was fairly under way. There were fifteen pieces in the band, which was led at first by Luke Parker, and afterwards by Peter Lee, who went into the service in 1861 as trumpeter in an Ohio battery, and was killed in action.

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In the county-history sources

9,999 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Liverpool Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Thomas Fawcett, migrating from Pennsylvania with Robert Boyce, halted at what is now East Liverpool, about 1798 or 1800, and there purchased a tract of 1100 acres of land, fronting on the river, and reaching from where Union Street now is to Jethro. Fawcett made a clearing and built a log cabin, the first in that vicinity, on a lot now owned by James Gaston. Robert Boyce settled on tbe uplands near the present Spring Grove camp-ground, east of Little Yellow Creek.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Among the settlers who were located in what is now Liverpool township, about the year 1S00, or shortly thereafter, were the following: John Rauch, who came over from Germany, settled between Yellow Creek and Fawcettstown, aud was a shoemaker as well as farmer ; Thomas Ashton, a Quaker, who is supposed to have kept the first store in Fawcettstown or the neighborhood, lived near Rauch ; Angus McBane, a farmer and tanner, lived on the hill above Jethro, where James McBane afterwards lived ; Joseph Hamilton, a farmer, lived near his father-in-law, Thomas Fawcett, who was a Quaker, and worked at his trade as carpenter, as well as on his farm ; Edward Devoe, a colored man, lived in 1800 upon the place now known as Spring Grove camp-ground.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Liverpool Township.

Fires near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Spring Grove between 1993 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryMIDDLE RUN RD.
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKITCHEL AVE. NEAR NEWELL
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryARROYO ROAD
8 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCRESENT
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry2507 LOCUST HILL ROAD
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryAUBURN DR/LOCUST HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 393 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 393 specimens collected within 10 miles of Spring Grove between 1895 and 1975: 269 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Peyron, Athearn, Herbert D., Beer, F.H. 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.1923F.O. GroverOn Campus
Specimen of Hypochnicium analogum (Bourdot & Galzin) J.Erikss.Hypochnicium analogum (Bourdot & Galzin) J.Erikss.1963W. B. Cooke, V.G. Cookewoods near roadside park, SR-7, 3 mi. s. of Rogers.
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson
Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, near Clarkson

All 393 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spring Grove: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wellsville PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Globe Number 1 MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Globe Refractories, Inc.ClayProducer

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
Walkers0.4 miles22
Jethro1.2 miles22
Pleasant Heights1.6 miles22
La Croft1.7 miles22
Hillcrest2.1 miles20
East Liverpool2.2 miles22
Wellsville2.3 miles22
Glenmoor2.7 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058039. 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.