Sterling, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1901 1994

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.

• 1901 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Wooster quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rittman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Canton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Rittman quadrangle1:24000

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

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Milton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sterling in 2002, burning under an acre 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Auburn Estates
• Douglas (historical)
• Five Points
• Hermanville
• Johnsons Corners
• Little Chippewa Estates

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 251 specimens collected within 10 miles of Sterling between 1889 and 1975: 215 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, Bruce Fink, Bruce, J. A. 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
	Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	Selby A. D.	Wayne Co.
	Chaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Icteria virens virens (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Pooecetes gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Spizella pusilla (A.Wilson, 1810)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Thryomanes bewickii (Audubon, 1827)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1893	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
	Cercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura	1896	Selby A. D.	Creston
	Pseudoperonospora cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Rostovzev	1897	Selby, A. D.	Creston
	Solanum carolinense L.	1898	Duvel, J.W.T	Creston

All 251 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sterling: 5 past producers, 1 plant. 1 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.

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sterling in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Wayne County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058045. 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.

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.