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

Westville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 44609. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.

Westville within Mahoning County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westville, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Westville between 2019 and 2019, burning about 2 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/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15253

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 234 shown

Museums hold 234 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westville between 1883 and 1975: 135 Animalia, 82 Plantae, 17 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, Anderson, B., 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1887?Dense woods, Salem.
Specimen of Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.KatoDeparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
Specimen of Alternaria NeesAlternaria Nees1904D.F. Yenghing
A photograph of the species Zenaida macroura, not of this specimenZenaida macroura carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1883not recordedBeloit
A photograph of the species Asclepias incarnata, not of this specimenAsclepias incarnata L.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1884E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asclepias quadrifolia, not of this specimenAsclepias quadrifolia Jacq.1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Asplenium filix-femina, not of this specimenAsplenium filix-femina (L.) Bernh.1887E. Wilkinson; CallSalem, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Aster prenanthoides, not of this specimenAster prenanthoides Muhl. ex Willd.1887Wilkinson, E.Salem
A photograph of the species Athyrium filix-femina, not of this specimenAthyrium filix-femina (L.) Roth1887E. WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Bromus secalinus, not of this specimenBromus secalinus L.1887WilkinsonSalem
A photograph of the species Cornus florida, not of this specimenCornus florida L.1887WilkinsonSalem

All 234 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 Westville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Whitacre Shale PlantClayPast Producer

Every working 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
Beloit1.5 miles15
Naylor1.6 miles15
Sebring2.0 miles20
Damascus2.1 miles15
Garfield2.4 miles15
Alliance Junction2.9 miles20
East Goshen3.3 miles15
Maple Ridge3.4 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1049320. 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.