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

Western Star, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Norton City. It lies in ZIP code area 44203. The Survey maps it on the Wadsworth quadrangle.

Western Star within Summit County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

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.

Topographic sheet of Western Star, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Western Star, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 483 shown

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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.Asclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1889Foltz, Kent O.Sand Run Park; Akron
Specimen of Asclepias verticillata L.Asclepias verticillata L.1889not recordedAkron
Specimen of Osmunda cinnamomea L.Osmunda cinnamomea L.1890Kofoid, C.A.Akron.
A photograph of the species Accipiter striatus, not of this specimenAccipiter striatus velox (A.Wilson, 1812)1867Collector(s): James Lee PetersAkron
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1880F. O. PayneAkron
A photograph of the species Hydrastis canadensis, not of this specimenHydrastis canadensis L.1888E.L. Sturtevant II
A photograph of the species Lonicera dioica, not of this specimenLonicera dioica L.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Penstemon hirsutus, not of this specimenPenstemon hirsutus (L.) Willd.1888K. O. Foltz
A photograph of the species Carex pensylvanica, not of this specimenCarex pensylvanica Lam.1889Foltz, K.O.Akron
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1889K. O. FoltzCopley Swamp, near Akron
A photograph of the species Phegopteris connectilis, not of this specimenPhegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt1890F. O. PayneAkron
A photograph of the species Phegopteris polypodioides, not of this specimenPhegopteris polypodioides Fée1890Frank O. PayneAkron.

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

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Western Star: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barberton Limestone MineLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Copley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Empire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Empire PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flesher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hammond Brothers GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms nearby

1 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Western Star in 1 storm report between 2019 and 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019HailWestern Star-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Sherman (historical)1.3 miles18
Hametown2.4 miles17
Norton2.6 miles18
Johnsons Corners2.9 miles18
Bates Corners3.2 miles18
Barberton4.5 miles22
Paxton4.7 miles18
New Portage5.1 miles22

Provenance

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.

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.