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Unionville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44431. The Survey maps it on the Elkton quadrangle. It stands 3,852 feet above sea level.

Unionville within Columbiana County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Unionville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Unionville, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the county-history sources

5,192 words on this township

History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Fairfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

store, which he kept about seven years, and was followed in trade by John Clapsaddle. Wheelwright- and blacksmithshops were carried on by Robert Long and Wm. Sluttcr. The latter removed to Columbiana, where he became a well-known carriage-builder. At Unionville were formerly a number of shoe-shops, of which one or two yet remain, and are the only interests which have not been diverted to railroad points.

Passage source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fairfield Township.

Fires near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Unionville between 2004 and 2016, burning about 7 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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 June 2016Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5006
9 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2005Recreation and ceremony1.6 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 November 2016Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 550 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 550 specimens collected within 10 miles of Unionville between 1884 and 1975: 284 Plantae, 224 Animalia, 41 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Adler, K. K., Andreas, B.; Cusick, A.W. 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 Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
Specimen of Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana County
A photograph of the species Thelypteris palustris, not of this specimenThelypteris palustris var. pubescens (G.Lawson) Fernald1884Shafer, J.A.near line of Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Chamerion angustifolium, not of this specimenChamerion angustifolium subsp. circumvagum (Mosquin) Hoch1885Shafer, J.A.N.Y.P.U.O.RR, East of Salem
A photograph of the species Micranthes pensylvanica, not of this specimenMicranthes pensylvanica (L.) Haw.1885Shafer, J.A.near line Columbiana Co
A photograph of the species Platanthera lacera, not of this specimenPlatanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don1885Shafer, J.A.; Hill, W.near Columbiana County line
A photograph of the species Toxicodendron vernix, not of this specimenToxicodendron vernix (L.) Kuntze1885Shafer, J.A.near Columbiana County

All 550 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Unionville: 4 producers, 4 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Chromium. 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
Kaiser Aluminum/ Columbiana, OhioChromiumProducer
Kaiser RefractoriesManganesePast Producer
Adams PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Beaver Creek Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leetonia PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Neiheisel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Salem PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Columbiana 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
Leetonia1.8 miles16
Southern Terrace Park2.5 miles17
Franklin Square2.9 miles15
Columbiana3.2 miles17
Washingtonville3.4 miles16
Longs Crossing4.0 miles15
Middleton4.6 miles15
Teegarden5.3 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on UnionvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14716836The 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 1065409. 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.