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

Ackerly Park, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Plain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43054. It stands on Sugar Run. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Ackerly Park within Franklin County

Then and now

1902 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ackerly Park, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Ackerly Park, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1858 county history

761 words on this township

The county history of 1858 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Plain Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plain Township - 761 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ackerly Park between 2009 and 2009, burning about 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,805 shown

Museums hold 1,805 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ackerly Park between 1842 and 1975: 1,773 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 11 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A. J. Penniman, A. P. Morgan 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
A photograph of the species Serpoleskea confervoides, not of this specimenSerpoleskea confervoides (Brid.) Loeske1842W. S. Sullivant6 miles above Columbus
A photograph of the species Aster laevis, not of this specimenAster laevis L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Central College
A photograph of the species Hibiscus trionum, not of this specimenHibiscus trionum L.1890Wilcox, E.V.Westerville
Mentha × alopecuroides Hull1890E. V. WilcoxCentral College. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Draba verna, not of this specimenDraba verna L.1891A C WhitneyWesterville
A photograph of the species Dermatocarpon miniatum, not of this specimenDermatocarpon miniatum (L.) W.Mann1892Bogue, E.E.Big Walnut Creek, Blacklick east of Columbus
A photograph of the species Hyperphyscia adglutinata, not of this specimenHyperphyscia adglutinata (Flörke) H.Mayrhofer & Poelt1892Bogue, E.E.Blacklick, east of Columbus
A photograph of the species Lecanora varia, not of this specimenLecanora varia (Hoffm.) Ach.1892Bogue, E.E.Blacklick
A photograph of the species Ameiurus natalis, not of this specimenAmeiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonBlack Lick, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191897R. Osburn & E. WilliamsonAlum Creek, Franklin County, Ohio

All 1,805 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Ealy Crossing0.4 miles12
New Albany0.5 miles12
Fenway0.5 miles12
Wiveliscombe0.7 miles12
Pickett Place0.8 miles12
Hampstead Heath1.0 miles12
Clivdon1.0 miles12
Waterston1.0 miles12

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122569574The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2771187. 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.