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

Alice, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Opossum Run. The Survey maps it on the Wilkesville quadrangle.

Alice within Gallia County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The 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 sheet of Alice, surveyed 1980

Topographic sheet of Alice, surveyed 1905

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.

Fires nearby

21 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Alice between 2007 and 2016, burning about 163 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2789
21 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 90 shown

Museums hold 90 specimens collected within 10 miles of Alice between 1900 and 1974: 33 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C., C. H. Jones 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
Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Kellerman W. A.	Vinton
Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1905	Ricker P. L.	Bidwell
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1932	Long, C. F.	Vinton, Ohio, USA
Agrostis L.	1935	C. H. Jones	Salem Twp.

All 90 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Alice in 7 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 6 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2019	Flood	Alice	$8,000	Several roads were closed due to flooding. This included State Route 325 along Robinson Run and Sugar Run, and State Route 850 due to flooding on Barren Run. Fitch Road was closed near where it intersects State Route 160 due to flooding on Chickamauga Creek, and Indian Guyan Creek flooded, closing a section of State Route 218.
February 2022	Flood	Alice	$3,000	All lanes of State Route 775 North were closed due to high water as were several other major roadways in the county. This included State Route 233 West and State Route 554 East.
February 2021	Flood	Alice	$3,000	Many local roads were closed for a time due to flooding, including Route 235 outside of Vinton, both directions of State Route 850, and Route 554 near Cheshire.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Alice	$2,000	Several trees were blown down along Keystone Road outside of Vinton.
February 2019	Flood	Alice	$2,000	State Route 325 was closed north of Rio Grande due to flooding on Deer Creek.
February 2018	Flood	Alice	$2,000	Multiple roads were closed due to high water. This included State Route 325 near the intersection with State Route 160 and State Route 554 between State Routes 7 and 160. State Route 160 was also closed near its intersection with State Route 7. Also closed were portions of State Routes 141, 218, 233, and 775.
February 2018	Flood	Alice	$1,000	Flooding along Raccoon Creek and Symmes Creek led to several road closures. This included portions of State Route 144, 324, and 554.

Every storm recorded in Gallia County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Durgan	1.0 miles	12
Ewington	1.3 miles	12
Vinton	3.5 miles	10
Edna (historical)	3.9 miles	11
Obad (historical)	4.0 miles	10
Rowlesville	4.8 miles	12
Glen Summitt	5.7 miles	10
Woods Mill	6.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048451. 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.

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.