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

Ashton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Enoch Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Camp Run. The Survey maps it on the Macksburg quadrangle.

Ashton within Noble County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ashton, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Ashton, surveyed 1903

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

4 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Ashton between 2012 and 2020, burning about 75 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7068
17 February 2017Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7065
7 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16016
31 January 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 80 shown

Museums hold 80 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ashton between 1884 and 1974: 58 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Percina maculata, not of this specimenPercina maculata (Girard, 1859)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio

All 80 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 Ashton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Merrill Brothers LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms nearby

1 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Ashton in 1 storm report between 2008 and 2008: 1 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAshton$35,000Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down east of Caldwell.

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
Dudley2.5 miles13
Fulda2.7 miles13
Duvall3.3 miles12
South Olive3.3 miles13
Moundsville3.4 miles13
Caldwell3.6 miles13
Dexter City3.9 miles13
Three Forks4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062637. 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.