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

Walnut Hill, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brookfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44438. It stands on Big Run. The Survey maps it on the Sharon West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Walnut Hill within Trumbull County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The 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 sheet of Walnut Hill (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Walnut Hill (historical), surveyed 1906

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.

Fires nearby

2 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hill (historical) between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning	2

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
24 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15692
24 October 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15323

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trumbull County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 81 shown

Museums hold 81 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut Hill (historical) between 1899 and 1975: 52 Animalia, 29 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. F. Newton, M. K. Thayer, Almon N. Rood, Brown, Fred 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)	1899	R. C. Osburn	Fowlerville
Vireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1925	Lyle D. Miller	Hubbard
Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)	1928	Lyle D. Miller	Hubbard
Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Pymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1929	MB Trautman & asst.	Small trib of the Shenango River, Hubbard Twp.
Culaea inconstans (Kirtland, 1840)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	small tributary (Mud Run) of Shenango River, (at N Main Street), at Hubbard OH, Hubbard Township
Esox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Pymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township
Lepomis Rafinesque, 1819	1929	MB Trautman & asst	Pymatuming Creek, trib of Shenango River, Southern Vernon Twp
Lepomis gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Pymatuning Creek, within Ex south Vernon township, near Orangeville, Vernon township

All 81 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
West Hill	0.9 miles	15
Yankee Hills	1.7 miles	15
Brookfield Center	1.9 miles	15
Bentley (historical)	2.5 miles	15
Weldon	2.5 miles	13
Masury	2.5 miles	15
Salow Corners	2.6 miles	15
Brookfield	2.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700923. 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.