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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.

Springville within Wayne County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Springville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Springville, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

2 since 2004

The 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 burning2

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
7 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,451 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)1930B. Montgomery & J. Houser2 miles northeast of Wooster
A photograph of the species Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1877Thorne, B.H.Station Farm, Wooster
A photograph of the species Chelidon Forster, not of this specimenChelidon Forster, 18171889Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Eupatorium sessilifolium, not of this specimenEupatorium sessilifolium L.1889Duvel, J.W.TFredericksburg
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Catharus guttatus, not of this specimenCatharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381890Harry C. OberholserWooster
Corthylio calendula calendula1890Harry C. OberholserWooster
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 19211890Harry C. OberholserWooster

All 2,451 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSpringville$45,000Roof damage to three homes and numerous trees uprooted or snapped about four-miles NNW of Shreve.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindSpringville$6,000A few large trees were reported down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSpringville$5,000Numerous trees and power lines downed in and around Springville.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Millbrook1.4 miles13
Horace (historical)2.4 miles13
Craigton2.4 miles13
Kauke3.2 miles18
Blachleyville3.3 miles11
Shreve3.8 miles13
Burnetts Corners4.0 miles17
Stringtown4.2 miles18

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 SpringvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22134299The 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.