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

Assumption, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amboy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43558. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle.

Assumption within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Assumption, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Assumption, surveyed 1911

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

6 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Assumption between 2007 and 2013, burning about 9 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism2

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
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 360 shown

Museums hold 360 specimens collected within 10 miles of Assumption between 1924 and 1975: 345 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., Davis, H.A.; Davis, T., Fausey, H. (Howard) 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 Capnodium Mont., 1849Capnodium Mont., 18491928W.M. BurkettMetamora
A photograph of the species Speyeria idalia, not of this specimenSpeyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)1924Pardon S. RemingtonSwanton
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1926Moseley, E.L.Engles, S of Swanton
A photograph of the species Aureolaria pedicularia, not of this specimenAureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.1927Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W.SE of Brailey
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1927Moseley, E.L.0.5 mi E of Brailey
A photograph of the species Silene noctiflora, not of this specimenSilene noctiflora L.1927Moseley, E.P.near Swanton
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
Noturus gyrinus (Mitchill, 1817)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township
A photograph of the species Pimephales promelas, not of this specimenPimephales promelas promelas Rafinesque, 18201929MB TrautmanBad Creek, in southeastern Pike Twnp, just north of village of Delta

All 360 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Assumption in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 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 2022Thunderstorm WindAssumption-A tree was uprooted and a roof of a garage was torn off.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAssumption-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Leslie (historical)2.3 miles12
Lytton2.5 miles12
Metamora2.7 miles12
Dutch Ridge3.1 miles12
Champion3.2 miles12
Treadway (historical)3.2 miles12
Ai3.3 miles12
Swanton Meadows3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048469. 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.