Copley Township Cemetery Receiving Vault

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“Copky Township came to us from Medina County when our county was created in 1840. It is well watered by Pigeon Creek, Wolf Creek and Chocolog Creek, besides having within its confines AMiite Pond, Black Pond and Chocolog Pond.”
Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.

one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3772 Copley Rd., Copley, 44321
When was it listed? 2017-07-13
Category. structure
Township. Copley township
National Register reference number. 100001333 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

227 words

The chapter on Copley Township in Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908 names Copley. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Copky Township came to us from Medina County when our county was created in 1840. It is well watered by Pigeon Creek, Wolf Creek and Chocolog Creek, besides having within its confines AMiite Pond, Black Pond and Chocolog Pond. Formerly a great swamp called Copley Swamp occupied a large part of it, but by judicious draining it has been reduced to an insignificant area. It Ls now one vast garden - the old peat and muck beds furnishing the best kind of soil for raising celery, onions, etc. In early times it was the great game preserve of the whole region. Copley was first settled in 1814 by Jonah Turner, who came from Pennsylvania. Six additional families arrived during the next five years. It was set apart as a township of Medina County in 1819, and was named Greenfield at first by Garner Green, who origi- nally owned a large part of ite territory. He afterwards changed the name to Copley, the maiden name of his wife. When the Northern Ohio Railroad was built, in 1891, it gave Copley an outlet, and was the means of starting a new hamlet - Fairlawn, which now boasts a mill, general store, smithy, etc. Copley sent nearly 150 men into the Union Army. Homer G. Long is now township clerk and C. C. Frederick is justice of the peace.

Passage source: Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Copley Township - 227 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 747 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 747 specimens collected within 10 miles of Copley Township Cemetery Receiving Vault between 1867 and 1975: 646 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by (no collector listed), A. Black, A. Woolman 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.

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
Peltandra virginica (L.) Schott	1889	Foltz, Kent O.	Akron; Blue Pond
Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer	1889	K. O. Foltz	Copley Swamp, near Akron
Phegopteris connectilis (Michx.) Watt	1890	F. O. Payne	Akron

All 747 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Copley Township Cemetery Receiving Vault: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Copley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Empire Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Empire Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Flesher Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Flesher Plant No. 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hammond Brothers Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this property

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Copley, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large tree limbs.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$5,000	no account filed
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$2,000	Police reported large tree limbs down from Copley to Richfield.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Copley	$2,000	A weak tornado touched down briefly near Copley causing some minor roof damage.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$1,000	Miscellaneous tree damage reported on the west side of Akron and in surrounding suburbs, including Barberton and Fairlawn.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a tree near the intersection of State Routes 21 and 162.
March 2026	Hail	Copley	-	Hail up to penny-size in Pigeon Creek.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	-	Several six-inch diameter tree limbs snapped in Pigeon Creek.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Copley	-	Tweet with picture showing several trees down in Copley.
September 2016	Hail	Copley	-	Nickel sized hail was observed.
May 2014	Hail	Copley	-	Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2014	Hail	Copley	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
September 1998	Hail	Copley	-	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Copley	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Copley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Summit County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Copley Depot	0.1 miles	2001
Bath Township School	2.8 miles	1979
Miller, Harvey, Residence	3.1 miles	1979
Hershey, J., Residence	3.2 miles	1979
Hopkins, Roswell, Residence	3.3 miles	1979
Hopkins, Roswell, Residence	3.3 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001333 in Record Group 79.
Summit County	All 137 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.