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Antonis, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45601. It stands on Mount Pisgah. The Survey maps it on the Waverly North quadrangle.

Antonis within Ross County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Antonis, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Antonis, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

53 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Antonis between 2006 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1901
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 700 shown

Museums hold 700 specimens collected within 10 miles of Antonis between 1874 and 1975: 620 Animalia, 50 Fungi, 24 Plantae, 5 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Lincoln, A. Cronquist, Barnes, M. (Mark) 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 Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
Erythroneura beameri Robinson, 19241904not recorded
A photograph of the species Aceria ulmicola, not of this specimenAceria ulmicola Nalepa, 19091923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Richmond Dale, Ross Co., OH, U.S.A.
A photograph of the species Sceloporus undulatus, not of this specimenSceloporus undulatus (Bosc & Daudin, 1801)1926ROBT ENDERS3 MI N ALMA
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Salt Creek, near US 50, east of Londonderry OH, Liberty Township
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & ass't.Paint Creek, trib of Scioto River near mouth, Springfield Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & ass't.Paint Creek, trib of Scioto River near mouth, Springfield Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & ass't.Paint Creek, trib of Scioto River near mouth, Springfield Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma variatum, not of this specimenEtheostoma variatum Kirtland, 18401929MB Trautman & ass't.Paint Creek, trib of Scioto River near mouth, Springfield Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1929MB Trautman & ass't.Paint Creek, trib of Scioto River near mouth, Springfield Twp
A photograph of the species Hybopsis Agassiz, not of this specimenHybopsis Agassiz, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Scioto River, within Jefferson township, near Richmond Dale, Jefferson township

All 700 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Antonis: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miami Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ross County

Storms nearby

2 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Antonis in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014Thunderstorm WindAntonis$20,000Numerous trees and power lines were downed in Franklin Township due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAntonis$3,000A few trees were downed in Franklin Township.

Every storm recorded in Ross 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
Alma2.7 miles13
Higby3.3 miles11
Pride3.8 miles13
Three Locks4.9 miles15
Rittenours5.0 miles11
Rupels5.6 miles12
Canada (historical)5.8 miles11
Massieville6.0 miles15

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 Q122558435The 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 1048464. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.