Yorktown, Ohio

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1911 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.

• 1911 USGS Newcomerstown quadrangle1:62500
• 1913 USGS Newcomerstown quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Newcomerstown 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
• 1961 USGS Stone Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stone Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Stone Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
• 1993 USGS Stone Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Stone Creek quadrangle1:24000

The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on York 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 15 fires within 5 miles of Yorktown between 2005 and 2020, burning about 28 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.

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:

• Blackband
• Joyce
• Old Town
• South Side
• Goshen
• New Philadelphia

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 509 specimens collected within 10 miles of Yorktown between 1851 and 1973: 419 Animalia, 72 Plantae, 16 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cibula, A. Cobula, A. Perry 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
	Pisidium cruciatum Sterki, 1895	1894	G. Marston	Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
	Pisidium fallax Sterki, 1896	1894	G. Marston	Tuscarawas River, New Philadelphia
	Pisidium noveboracense Prime, 1858	1895	G. Marston	from spring - brook lat. 4 miles south of New Philadelpia (Sterki)
	Amelanchier arborea (F.Michx.) Fernald	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Anemone canadensis L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Cardamine douglassii Britton	1851	Wolle, J.	Canae Docus [??] [Canal Dover]
	Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover?]
	Delphinium tricorne Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Dover
	Hydrophyllum appendiculatum Michx.	1851	Wolle, J.	Tuscarawa City
	Hydrophyllum virginianum L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canoe Down [Canal Dover]
	Silene virginica L.	1851	Wolle, J.	Canal Downs [Canal Dover]

All 509 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Yorktown: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 Tuscarawas County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yorktown in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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 Tuscarawas 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 1063108. 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.