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

Anthony, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lodi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45735. The Survey maps it on the Alfred quadrangle.

Anthony within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Anthony, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Anthony, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Anthony between 2007 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15150
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15139
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15462
25 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7628

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,095 shown

Museums hold 1,095 specimens collected within 10 miles of Anthony between 1831 and 1975: 944 Animalia, 123 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica var. longespica1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Quercus minor, not of this specimenQuercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 18461902Kellerman, W.A.Athens
A photograph of the species Erasmoneura vulnerata, not of this specimenErasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)1905not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)1905H.T. Osborn
Eratoneura ardens (McAtee, 1920)1905H.T. Osborn

All 1,095 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Anthony in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2013LightningAnthony$4,000A garage was struck, causing a fire.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAnthony$2,000The survey team found several trees down in the area. This included along Sand Ridge Road, Mill School Road and Fossil Rock Road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAnthony$750A downed tree also brought down power lines at Fossil Rock Road and Sargent Road in Guysville.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Hull1.4 miles14
Carsey Town1.7 miles21
Garden2.0 miles13
Shade3.1 miles13
Pratts Fork3.5 miles13
Stringtown4.5 miles14
Lottridge4.5 miles13
Lysander4.8 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048462. 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.