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

Walnut Hills, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Massillon City. It lies in ZIP code area 44646. It stands on Wetmore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Massillon quadrangle.

Walnut Hills 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 Walnut Hills, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Walnut Hills, 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.

Fires nearby

4 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hills between 2005 and 2019, burning about 12 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	3
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
9 April 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
13 April 2005	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
20 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 449 shown

Museums hold 449 specimens collected within 10 miles of Walnut Hills between 1836 and 1975: 388 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 8 Unrecorded, 4 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.M. Rogers, Anson A. Hinkley, Antonio, T. 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
Gloeosporium venetum Speg.	1890	J.T. Rice
unnamed	1907	Bruce Fink
Catocala flebilis Grote, 1872	1940	not recorded	Navarre
Carex granularis Muhl. ex Willd.	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Carex intumescens Rudge	1836	Collector unknown	Canton
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1875	not recorded	No specific locality recorded.
Theliderma metanevra (Rafinesque, 1820)	1875	Sterki, Victor	Beach City
Archilochus colubris (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Hylocichla mustelina (Gmelin, 1789)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton
Icterus galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)	1885	not recorded	Canton
Melospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790)	1885	Bulley, R. H	Canton

All 449 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 of 11 shown

The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Hills: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 3 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Republic Steel/ Massillon, Ohio	Iron	Producer
Aj Diana Sons Inc Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp Plant No 3 & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Allied Corp. Plant Number 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Diana Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Massillon Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Navarre Pit Mass. Washed Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northern Ohio Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oster Sand & Gravel Missilon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Augusta Lakes	0.4 miles	17
Grey Ridge Estates	1.0 miles	17
New England	1.0 miles	18
Columbia	1.2 miles	18
Crescent Gardens	1.5 miles	17
Massillon	1.5 miles	18
West Park	1.5 miles	18
Sippo Heights	1.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056560. 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.