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Troy Oaks Homes, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 44234. The Survey maps it on the Burton quadrangle.

Troy Oaks Homes within Portage County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Troy Oaks Homes, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Troy Oaks Homes, surveyed 1905

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

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Troy Oaks Homes between 2020 and 2020, 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/undetermined1

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
4 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Portage County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 354 shown

Museums hold 354 specimens collected within 10 miles of Troy Oaks Homes between 1884 and 1974: 272 Animalia, 82 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Bruyne P de 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 Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1884G. DeanGarretsville
Specimen of Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 1908Aeshna umbrosa Walker, 19081936W. ThrasherGarrettville
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ambystoma maculatum, not of this specimenAmbystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)1893not recordedGarrettsville
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis cornutus, not of this specimenNotropis cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1893WoolmanCuyahoga Lake, Mantua, Ohio
A photograph of the species Umbra limi, not of this specimenUmbra limi (Kirtland, 1840)1893A. WoolmanCuyahoga River, Mantau, Ohio
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1899Webb, R.J.Nelson Ledge

All 354 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Troy Oaks Homes: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. 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
Haueter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haueter Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Solon Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Solon Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Portage 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
Hiram Rapids3.1 miles13
Mantua Corners5.3 miles13
Hiram5.3 miles13
Mantua Center5.8 miles13
Mantua7.0 miles13
Silo7.1 miles17
Jeddoe7.6 miles13
Garrettsville8.3 miles13

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 Q122555944The 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 2513643. 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.