Ai, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43558. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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 Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Fulton township, in the words of 1899.
Colonial Dames Of America
AND FINALLY DESTROYED AT THE OUTBREAK OF PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY 10TH MAY 1783 WHEN THE FORT WAS BURNED THE ENTIRE GARRISON MASSACRED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COMMANDANT ENSIGN PAULI WHO WAS CARRIED OFF A PRISONER TO PONTIAC THEN BESIECINC DETROIT ERECTED BY THE OHIO SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA
In the 1899 county history
538,920 words on this townshipThe county history of 1899 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Fulton Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Fulton Township - 538,920 words.
Fires nearby
10 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ai between 2006 and 2014, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 16 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 650 shownMuseums hold 650 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ai between 1894 and 1975: 633 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., Conan J. Taylor, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Capnodium Mont., 1849 | 1928 | W.M. Burkett | Metamora |
![]() | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773) | 1924 | Pardon S. Remington | Swanton |
![]() | Carex tetanica Schkuhr | 1925 | Moseley, E.L. | NW of Neapolis |
![]() | Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer | 1926 | Moseley, E.L. | Engles, S of Swanton |
![]() | Aureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw. | 1927 | Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W. | SE of Brailey |
![]() | Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv. | 1927 | Moseley, E.L. | 0.5 mi E of Brailey |
![]() | Carpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1927 | MB Troutman | Bad Creek, near and at border. |
All 650 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swanton Meadows | 0.4 miles | 11 | |
| Dutch Ridge | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lytton | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Assumption | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Swanton | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Siney (historical) | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Leslie (historical) | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Swissaire Estates | 4.3 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048449. 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.























