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Annapolis, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43910. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

Annapolis within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Annapolis, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Annapolis, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

14 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Annapolis between 2003 and 2020, burning about 17 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
5 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources721
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12912
4 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12908
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13765
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 411 shown

Museums hold 411 specimens collected within 10 miles of Annapolis between 1896 and 1974: 320 Animalia, 73 Plantae, 18 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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
Specimen of Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1902W. A. Kellerman
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Puccinia myrrhis, not of this specimenPuccinia myrrhis Alb. & Schwein.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1920Ortmann, Arnold EReeds Mills

All 411 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Annapolis in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2011FloodAnnapolis$10,000A trained spotter reported small stream out of its banks affecting the town of Annapolis.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Springfield2.7 miles17
Middleburg3.1 miles16
Fairfield3.3 miles17
Panhandle3.6 miles18
Unionport3.8 miles18
Wolf Run4.1 miles16
Fairplay4.2 miles18
Richmond5.1 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on AnnapolisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133487The 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 1064332. 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.