West Point, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1904 1986

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.

• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1904 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS West Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS East Liverpool quadrangle1:100000

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 2005 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Elkton
• Jordanville
• Saratoga (historical)
• Campus
• Glasgow
• Lisbon

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 759 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Point between 1889 and 1975: 522 Animalia, 216 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Mac Gillivroy, Adler, K. K., Albert Peyron 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	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon	1916	E.K. Seymour	Lower campus
	Irpiciporus tulipiferae (Schwein.) Murrill	1917	Overholts	W. Elkton
	Polyporus galactinus Berk.	1917	Overholts	W. Elkton
	Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)	1889	A. D. Mac Gillivroy	Salineville
	Polistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)	1889	not recorded	Salineville
	Thoracophorus costalis (Erichson, 1840)	1891	not recorded
	Bombus ashtoni (Cresson, 1864)	1892	unknown	Salineville
	Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1892	not recorded	Salineville
	Megachile mendica Cresson, 1878	1892	unknown	Salineville
	Polyporus luridus Kalchbr.	1895	Holden Wm.	Spring Grove
	Dumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)	1899	not recorded	East Liverpool
	Plantago rugelii Decne.	1899	Shafer, J.A.	Lisbon

All 759 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Point: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Columbiana County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Point in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Columbiana County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061749. 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.

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.