West River Park, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Newton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44444. The Survey maps it on the Newton Falls quadrangle.
Then and now
1908 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Warren quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Newton Falls quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
2 since 2019The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West River Park between 2019 and 2019, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15316 |
| 23 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15315 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 131 shownMuseums hold 131 specimens collected within 10 miles of West River Park between 1890 and 1973: 94 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Alternaria panax Whetzel | 1909 | W.P. Warren | Garden of Warren |
![]() | Pleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci | 1927 | F.R. Jones; J.J. Davis | Newton |
![]() | Asclepias tuberosa L. | 1928 | Rood, Almon N. | Braceville Tp., |
![]() | Obovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845) | 1890 | Dean, G W | Newton Falls, mill pond |
![]() | Neogale Gray, 1865 | 1894 | William Harvey Brown | WARREN |
![]() | Poa alsodes A.Gray | 1907 | Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N. | Braceville Twp |
![]() | Amelanchier arborea var. laevis (Wiegand) H.E.Ahles | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp |
![]() | Centaurea nigrescens Willd. | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx |
![]() | Desmodium canadense (L.) DC. | 1908 | Rood, A.M. | Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls |
![]() | Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs | 1908 | Rood, A.N. | Phalanx, Braceville Twp., West Swamp |
![]() | Amblema plicata (Say, 1817) | 1909 | not recorded | Newton Falls, lesser branch above city |
![]() | Catocala piatrix Grote, 1864 | 1911 | Zahrobsky, C. A. (Charles A.) | Warren, Trumbull Co., OH, U.S.A. |
All 131 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Heights | 0.3 miles | 13 | |
| Newton Falls | 0.5 miles | 13 | |
| South Canal | 0.7 miles | 13 | |
| West View | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| Maderite Heights | 0.9 miles | 13 | |
| Arlington Heights | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Riverview | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| Rose Park | 1.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1084529. 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.
























