Sprucevale, Ohio
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in St. Clair Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43920. It stands on Longs Run. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 1994The 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.


Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
22 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.
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS East Liverpool North quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
31 since 2005The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Sprucevale between 2005 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 6346 |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15273 |
| 21 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15816 |
| 4 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 1181 |
| 7 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15128 |
| 25 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4653 |
| 20 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 12925 |
| 18 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 561 shownMuseums hold 561 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sprucevale between 1895 and 1975: 317 Animalia, 224 Plantae, 20 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon | 1916 | E.K. Seymour | Lower campus |
![]() | Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Polyporus galactinus Berk. | 1917 | Overholts | W. Elkton |
![]() | Polyporus luridus Kalchbr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | Spring Grove |
![]() | Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1899 | not recorded | East Liverpool |
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1900 | Shafer, J.A. | [Glasglow], Smiths Ferry |
![]() | Alnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd. | 1901 | Miller, J. | Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio. |
![]() | Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook. | 1901 | Miller, J. | Clarkson |
![]() | Epigaea repens L. | 1901 | Miller, J. | Clarkson |
![]() | Hetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798) | 1901 | E. B. Williamson | Clarkson |
| Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1901 | E. Williamson | Middle fork Little Beaver, Mahominy County, Ohio | |
| Valerianella Mill. | 1901 | Miller, J. | Rough Run near Clarkson |
All 561 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries nearby
1 within 5 milesThe federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sprucevale: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landsberry Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara Estates | 1.4 miles | 22 | |
| Fredericktown | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Cannons Mill | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Calcutta | 2.3 miles | 22 | |
| Grimms Bridge | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Williamsport | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Clarkson | 3.2 miles | 22 | |
| Middle Beaver (historical) | 3.5 miles | 20 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122549658 | 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 1065372. 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.































