Block
Thomastown, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Akron City. It lies in ZIP code area 44306. The Survey maps it on the Akron East quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
16 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.
- 1906 USGS Kent quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Kent quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Akron East quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
22,626 words on this townshipCentennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Akron City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In Springfield and Green townships there exists a four-foot stratum of limestone, of fair quality. Limestone, very impure, also occurs scattered in other portions of the county. Below Cuyahoga Falls, it was quarried in the early days of the county, and burned for water-lime. It is said that quantities of this local lime were u.sed in the masonry of the Ohio Canal, at the time of its' construction.
Passage source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Thomastown between 2014 and 2014, burning about 0 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cuyahoga Valley National Park | CANYON TRAIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 744 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 744 specimens collected within 10 miles of Thomastown between 1867 and 1975: 633 Animalia, 65 Plantae, 44 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. W. Cusick 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Botrychium virginianum subsp. virginianum | 1888 | Wright, A.A. | Tallmadge. |
 | Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq. | 1889 | Foltz, Kent O. | Sand Run Park; Akron |
 | Asclepias verticillata L. | 1889 | not recorded | Akron |
 | Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812) | 1867 | Collector(s): James Lee Peters | Akron |
 | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1880 | F. O. Payne | Akron |
 | Geum aleppicum Jacq. | 1887 | Elliott | Greensburg |
 | Geum canadense Jacq. | 1887 | Elliott | Greensburg |
 | Hydrastis canadensis L. | 1888 | E.L. Sturtevant II | |
 | Lonicera dioica L. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd. | 1888 | K. O. Foltz | |
 | Agrimonia gryposepala Wallr. | 1889 | Elliott | Greensburg |
 | Carex pensylvanica Lam. | 1889 | Foltz, K.O. | Akron |
All 744 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Thomastown: 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Limestone Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| Arlington Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Barberton Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hammond Brothers Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hammond Brothers Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Knight Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Lerkis Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Martz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Martz Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Portage Lakes Pit Number 2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derby Downs | 1.6 miles | 16 | |
| Firestone Park | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Brittain | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| East Akron | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| South Akron | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Krumroy | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Coventry Estates | 2.1 miles | 16 | |
| Swartz Corners | 2.4 miles | 22 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061684. 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.