Youngstown, Ohio

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• Mahoning County

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1994

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 49 shown

• Arlington Avenue Districtlisted 1974
• Austintown Log Houselisted 1974
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Terminallisted 1986
• Burt Buildinglisted 2008
• Butler Institute Of American Artlisted 1974
• Central Tower Buildinglisted 1980
• City Hall Annexlisted 1986
• Erie Terminal Building-Commerce Plaza Buildinglisted 1986
• Federal Buildinglisted 1980
• First National Bank Buildinglisted 1980
• Helen Chapellisted 1986
• Idora Parklisted 1993

Every listing in Mahoning County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 14 shown

• 258 Federal Plaza West (Commercial Building), Youngstownfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Carnegie Steel-Ohio Works, Steam Engines, 912 Salt Springs Road, Youngstownfederal building survey, 21 photographs
• Eagle's Hall, 270-278 West Rayen Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 20 photographs
• Mahoning Avenue Pratt Double-Deck Bridge, Spanning Mill Creek at Mahoning Avenue (C.R. 319), Youngstownfederal building survey, 25 photographs
• Porter Pollock Estate, Caretaker's House, 603 Wick Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 15 photographs
• Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, 1290 Poland Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Blooming Mill & Blooming Mill Engines, North of Poland Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 16 photographs
• Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Haselton Blast Furnaces, West of Center Street Viaduct, along Mahoning River, Youngstownfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works, Rolling Mill, South Avenue at Mahoning River, Youngstownfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• W. Arms House, 648 Wick Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 13 photographs
• Youngstown City Water Works, 160 North West Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Youngstown City Water Works, Filtration House, 160 North West Avenue, Youngstownfederal building survey, 9 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Mahoning County

Businesses named in the fire insurance atlases 12 of 56 shown

• Carriage & Wagon CoCarriage Shop, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• City BreweryBrewery, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Girard Flour MillFlour Mill, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Hall Iron WorksWorks, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Hamilton WorksWorks, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Lowell Milling Co's Roller Mills,.14Mill, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Moser, J., Saw MillSaw Mill, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Opera HouseOpera House, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Stove WorksStove Works, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• Vinton's Brass FoundryFoundry, in the atlas of 1884 to 1889
• American HotelHotel, in the atlas of 1889
• Arms, Bell & Co.,GrasshopperShop, in the atlas of 1884

Every atlas business in Mahoning County

Youngstown grew from 273 to 60,068 between 1820 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1906 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1951 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Cleveland quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1986 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Youngstown quadrangle1:24000

An account from the chapter on Youngstown city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Youngstown between 2010 and 2020, burning about 6 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:

• Flint Hill
• Campbell
• Crab Creek Junction
• East Side
• Haselton
• Newport (historical)

Every fire recorded in Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 304 specimens collected within 10 miles of Youngstown between 1853 and 1974: 220 Animalia, 78 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, B Withers, B. West 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
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1891	W. H. Olney	Poland
	Eurytoma pater Girault, 1920	1915	W. Phillips	Youngstown
	Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783)	1853	not recorded	Poland, Yellow Creek
	Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek, Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma camurum (Cope, 1870)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1853	C. Kirtland	Yellow Creek, Poland Ohio.
	Etheostoma maculatum Kirtland, 1840	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio
	Etheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)	1853	S. Baird	Yellow Creek Poland, Ohio

All 304 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Youngstown: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Aluminum. 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 Mahoning County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngstown in 44 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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 Mahoning County

2 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058156. 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.