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

Stillwater, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rush Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44683. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tippecanoe quadrangle.

Stillwater within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stillwater, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Stillwater, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

10 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stillwater between 2004 and 2020, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 April 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15602
3 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15599
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12185
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4808
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15476
9 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11206
9 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12628
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 196 shown

Museums hold 196 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stillwater between 1851 and 1973: 129 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 33 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Perry, Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M. 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 Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 18951894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896Pisidium fallax Sterki, 18961894G. MarstonTuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
Specimen of Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 18581895G. Marstonfrom spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki)
A photograph of the species Hydrophyllum appendiculatum, not of this specimenHydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.1851Wolle, J.Tuscarawa City
A photograph of the species Galba parva, not of this specimenGalba parva (I.Lea, 1841)1886Collector(s): unknownGoshen
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(3 mi above)
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)

All 196 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Stillwater: 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal. 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
Urichsville PitStone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, CoalProducer
Can-Tex Pit Number 1ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Can-Tex Pit Number 1ClayPast Producer
Evans Farm PitClayProducer
L and M Mineral Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Superior Clay Corporation MillClayPast Producer
Urichsville PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Storms nearby

4 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Stillwater in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 4 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 WindStillwater$10,000Local emergency manager reported widespread tree damage in the region.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindStillwater$10,000Trees were blown down in Stillwater.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindStillwater$10,000Local law enforcement reported that a number of trees were blown down in southern parts of Tuscarawas County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStillwater$1,000A tree was reported down on Edie Hill Road just northwest of Stillwater.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Newport3.1 miles14
Rock3.1 miles14
Rush3.3 miles14
Dennison5.0 miles16
Uhrichsville5.2 miles16
Elm (historical)5.4 miles15
Riverside Park6.3 miles15
Roanoake6.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065384. 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.