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

West Austintown, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Austintown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44515. The Survey maps it on the Canfield quadrangle.

West Austintown within Mahoning County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Austintown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of West Austintown, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 137 shown

Museums hold 137 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Austintown between 1883 and 1974: 118 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B Withers 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 Eurytoma pater Girault, 1920Eurytoma pater Girault, 19201915W. PhillipsYoungstown
Specimen of Peniophora Cooke, 1879Peniophora Cooke, 18791926F. O. Grover128 Forest St., M. M. Metcalf's yard, slope of S. side of low land
A photograph of the species Thalictrum dioicum, not of this specimenThalictrum dioicum L.1883Meissner, C.A.Brier Hill, O
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1885Shafer, J.A.Lantermans Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Dryopteris intermedia, not of this specimenDryopteris intermedia (Muhl. ex Willd.) A.Gray1885Shafer, J.A.Lanterman Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1885Shafer, J.A.Mill Creek just below Iona Falls, near Youngstown
A photograph of the species Aplectrum hyemale, not of this specimenAplectrum hyemale (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt.1896Ransom, R.Perkins (Corners)
A photograph of the species Arigomphus villosipes, not of this specimenArigomphus villosipes (Selys, 1854)1900E. Williamson[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Parascalops breweri, not of this specimenParascalops breweri (Bachman, 1842)1901not recordedEllsworth
A photograph of the species Microtus pennsylvanicus, not of this specimenMicrotus pennsylvanicus (Ord, 1815)1909Vichery, E. W.Ellsworth, Mahoning Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis f. obtusilobata (Schkuhr) Gilbert1910Vickers, E.W.Ellsworth

All 137 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Austintown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Oakwood Billets/ Youngstown, OhioAluminumProducer

Every working recorded in Mahoning County

Storms nearby

1 since 2007

The National Weather Service names West Austintown in 1 storm report between 2007 and 2007: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007HailWest Austintown$250,000Hail ranging from walnut size to nickel size was observed. Some vehicles sustained damage from the hail.

Every storm recorded in Mahoning 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
Stony Ridge0.8 miles13
Taylor Corners1.2 miles13
Shively Corners1.5 miles13
Austintown1.5 miles13
Ohlton (historical)1.7 miles13
Ohltown2.0 miles13
Camp Park2.1 miles13
North Jackson3.4 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.

Wikipedia article on West AustintownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22340942The 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 1056565. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.