Western Star, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1903 1994

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.

• 1903 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500
• 1905 USGS Akron quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Cleveland South quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Wadsworth quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Western Star in 2009, burning under an acre 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.

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

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 483 specimens collected within 10 miles of Western Star between 1867 and 1975: 406 Animalia, 40 Fungi, 35 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A.E. Daugherty, Anson A. Hinkley 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
	Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.	1889	Foltz, Kent O.	Sand Run Park; Akron
	Asclepias verticillata L.	1889	not recorded	Akron
	Osmunda cinnamomea L.	1890	Kofoid, C.A.	Akron.
	Accipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)	1867	Collector(s): James Lee Peters	Akron
	Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs	1880	F. O. Payne	Akron
	Hydrastis canadensis L.	1888	E.L. Sturtevant II
	Lonicera dioica L.	1888	K. O. Foltz
	Penstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.	1888	K. O. Foltz
	Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1889	Foltz, K.O.	Akron
	Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer	1889	K. O. Foltz	Copley Swamp, near Akron
	Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt	1890	F. O. Payne	Akron
	Phegopteris polypodioides Fée	1890	Frank O. Payne	Akron.

All 483 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Western Star: 8 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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 Summit County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Western Star in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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 1061758. 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.