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

Atherton, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Licking Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43025. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Atherton within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Atherton, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Atherton, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Licking township, in the words of 1881.

1881, Licking Township

Abraham Lincoln

(31 BRAHAM LINCOLN, the sixteenth Presi- LA dent of the United States, was born in Hardin (1 County, Ky., February 12, 1809. About the year 1780, a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln left Virginia with his family and moved into the then wilds of Kentucky. Only two years after this emigration, and while still a young man, he was working one day in a field, when an Indian stealthily approached and killed him.

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Fires nearby

1 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Atherton between 2020 and 2020, burning about 0 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
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
15 April 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15709

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,482 shown

Museums hold 2,482 specimens collected within 10 miles of Atherton between 1843 and 1975: 2,166 Animalia, 243 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. W. Lindsey 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758	1884	F. S. Robinson
Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822	1893	unknown	Licking Reservoir
Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.	1893	J.B. Ellis	Granville
Helodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.	1843	Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Hypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1843	A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant	in Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1853	Mack, D. (Don)	Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
Philomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)	1872	Jasper, T. (Theodore)	Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 1789	1874	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Calidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)	1878	Savage, E. (Ed)	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1878	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1880	not recorded	Licking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789	1880	not recorded	Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,482 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jacksontown	1.2 miles	14
Harbor Hills	1.6 miles	14
Moscow (historical)	1.7 miles	14
Buckeye Lake	2.7 miles	14
Edgewater Beach	2.8 miles	14
Fleatown	2.8 miles	14
Locust Grove	2.9 miles	12
Hebron	2.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064350. 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.

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