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Arnheim, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45121. It stands on Buck Run. The Survey maps it on the Ash Ridge quadrangle.

Arnheim within Brown County

Then and now

1928 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 63 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Arnheim, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Arnheim, surveyed 1928

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

In the 1883 county history

7,543 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Franklin Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Franklin Township - 7,543 words.

Fires nearby

9 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Arnheim between 2002 and 2020, burning about 29 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16070
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16069
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16068
2 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15209
12 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16065
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16061

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 287 shown

Museums hold 287 specimens collected within 10 miles of Arnheim between 1885 and 1974: 215 Animalia, 62 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Braun 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1907Berry M. D.?Georgetown
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
Secotium agaricoides (Czern.) Hollós1913Lyon C. D.Georgetown
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Usnea subfloridana, not of this specimenUsnea subfloridana Stirt.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak

All 287 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Arnheim in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
November 2013Thunderstorm WindWest Arnheim$10,000A barn was heavily damaged due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindArnheim$1,000A tree was knocked down along Yockey Road.
September 2020FloodArnheim-High water was reported on a roadway.
April 2018HailArnheim-Nickel sized hail was covering the ground at Lake Waynoka.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArnheim-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph.
June 2022HailWest Arnheim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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 Wahlsburg2.3 miles11
West Arnheim2.4 miles11
Brownstown2.6 miles11
Ash Ridge4.0 miles11
Wahlsburg4.2 miles10
Five Points4.9 miles11
New Hope5.0 miles10
Russellville5.1 miles11

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 ArnheimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133495The 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 1048467. 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.