Springville, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44691. The Survey maps it on the Shreve quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The 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.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Shreve quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
2 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Springville between 2004 and 2010, burning about 3 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 2,451 shownMuseums hold 2,451 specimens collected within 10 miles of Springville between 1877 and 1975: 2,019 Animalia, 243 Plantae, 150 Fungi, 38 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807) | 1930 | B. Montgomery & J. Houser | 2 miles northeast of Wooster |
![]() | Aster ciliolatus Lindl. | 1877 | Thorne, B.H. | Station Farm, Wooster |
![]() | Chelidon Forster, 1817 | 1889 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Eupatorium sessilifolium L. | 1889 | Duvel, J.W.T | Fredericksburg |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
![]() | Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
![]() | Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845) | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
![]() | Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
| Corthylio calendula calendula | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster | |
![]() | Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921 | 1890 | Harry C. Oberholser | Wooster |
All 2,451 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 1999The National Weather Service names Springville in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springville | $45,000 | Roof damage to three homes and numerous trees uprooted or snapped about four-miles NNW of Shreve. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springville | $6,000 | A few large trees were reported down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Springville | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines downed in and around Springville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millbrook | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Horace (historical) | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Craigton | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Kauke | 3.2 miles | 18 | |
| Blachleyville | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Shreve | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Burnetts Corners | 4.0 miles | 17 | |
| Stringtown | 4.2 miles | 18 |
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 Springville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22134299 | 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 1079592. 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.






















