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

Stony Ridge, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Austintown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44515. It stands on Sawmill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canfield quadrangle.

Stony Ridge within Mahoning County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Stony Ridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Stony Ridge, surveyed 1908

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 143 shown

Museums hold 143 specimens collected within 10 miles of Stony Ridge between 1883 and 1974: 123 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B Withers 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 Eurytoma pater Girault, 1920Eurytoma pater Girault, 19201915W. PhillipsYoungstown
Specimen of Peniophora Cooke, 1879Peniophora Cooke, 18791926F. O. Grover128 Forest St., M. M. Metcalf's yard, slope of S. side of low land
A photograph of the species Thalictrum dioicum, not of this specimenThalictrum dioicum L.1883Meissner, C.A.Brier Hill, O
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Dryopteris intermedia, not of this specimenDryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray1885Shafer, J.A.Lanterman Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1885Shafer, J.A.Mill Creek just below Iona Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Aplectrum hyemale, not of this specimenAplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.1896Ransom, R.Perkins (Corners)
A photograph of the species Arigomphus villosipes, not of this specimenArigomphus villosipes (Selys, 1854)1900E. Williamson[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Parascalops breweri, not of this specimenParascalops breweri (Bachman, 1842)1901not recordedEllsworth
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1909Vickers, E.W.Mahoning River, Berlin Twp
A photograph of the species Microtus pennsylvanicus, not of this specimenMicrotus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)1909Vichery, E. W.Ellsworth, Mahoning Co., Ohio, USA

All 143 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
West Austintown0.8 miles13
Camp Park1.6 miles13
Taylor Corners1.8 miles13
Austintown2.2 miles13
Shively Corners2.3 miles13
Ohlton (historical)2.4 miles13
Ohltown2.7 miles13
North Jackson2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056533. 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.

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