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Arbaugh, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Vinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45695. It stands on Elk Fork. The Survey maps it on the Vales Mills quadrangle.

Arbaugh within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1992

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 Arbaugh, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Arbaugh, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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

15 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Arbaugh between 2012 and 2019, burning about 77 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
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
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5506
31 May 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1427
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15109
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15121
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11011
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7898
9 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 478 shown

Museums hold 478 specimens collected within 10 miles of Arbaugh between 1900 and 1975: 409 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 22 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Calobata antennaepes Say, 18231900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Capnochroa LeConte, 18621900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Cephalops Fallén, 18101900Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 478 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Vales Mills1.3 miles12
Pincher (historical)1.5 miles12
Radcliff3.1 miles13
Oreton4.0 miles13
Bolins Mills4.9 miles12
Hawks5.0 miles13
Prattsville5.3 miles13
Clarion6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062632. 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.