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

Urban Hill, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44666. The Survey maps it on the Massillon quadrangle.

Urban Hill within Stark County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Urban Hill, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Urban Hill, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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 1881 county history

5,804 words on this township

The county history of 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lawrence Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Lawrence Township - 5,804 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 255 shown

Museums hold 255 specimens collected within 10 miles of Urban Hill between 1887 and 1975: 229 Animalia, 20 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Bangham, R. V. 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 Gloeosporium venetum Speg.Gloeosporium venetum Speg.1890J.T. Rice
Specimen of unnamed1907Bruce Fink
Specimen of Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872Catocala flebilis Grote, 18721940not recordedNavarre
A photograph of the species Geum aleppicum, not of this specimenGeum aleppicum Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Geum canadense, not of this specimenGeum canadense Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Lanius borealis, not of this specimenLanius borealis borealis1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Pooecetes gramineus, not of this specimenPooecetes gramineus gramineus (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1888Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Agrimonia gryposepala, not of this specimenAgrimonia gryposepala Wallr.1889ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Bombycilla cedrorum, not of this specimenBombycilla cedrorum Vieillot, 18081889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs
A photograph of the species Certhia americana, not of this specimenCerthia americana americana Bonaparte, 18381889Harry C. OberholserPines 3 miles s of Newman Springs
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981889Harry C. OberholserNewman Springs

All 255 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Urban Hill: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Bailey & Weidner Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Bailey & Weidner Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Massillon PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ries Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ries Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stark 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
North Lawrence0.7 miles17
Brimestone Corners (historical)2.2 miles18
Sippo2.3 miles18
West Fulton3.0 miles18
Newman3.1 miles18
Canal Fulton3.1 miles18
Summit (historical)3.2 miles17
East Greenville3.4 miles17

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 Q122567941The 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 1056556. 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.

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.