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

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.

Sprucevale 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 Sprucevale, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sprucevale, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

31 since 2005

The 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6346
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15273
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1181
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
25 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4653
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12925
18 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 561 shown

Museums 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 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 Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) MurrillIrpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill1917OverholtsW. Elkton
Specimen of Polyporus galactinus Berk.Polyporus galactinus Berk.1917OverholtsW. Elkton
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
Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901E. WilliamsonMiddle fork Little Beaver, Mahominy County, Ohio
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson

All 561 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Landsberry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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
Santa Clara Estates1.4 miles22
Fredericktown1.9 miles22
Cannons Mill2.3 miles22
Calcutta2.3 miles22
Grimms Bridge3.0 miles22
Williamsport3.1 miles20
Clarkson3.2 miles22
Middle Beaver (historical)3.5 miles20

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 Q122549658The 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.