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

Bacon Flat, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Stone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jaybird quadrangle.

Bacon Flat within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

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 Bacon Flat, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Bacon Flat, surveyed 1916

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.

In the 1900 county history

821 words on this township

The county history of 1900 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 - 821 words.

Fires nearby

18 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Bacon Flat between 2004 and 2020, burning about 92 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15275
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15274
26 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8725
18 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15796
6 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4387
22 April 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14425

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,074 shown

Museums hold 1,074 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bacon Flat between 1866 and 1975: 536 Fungi, 294 Plantae, 210 Animalia, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. J. Sharp 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 19311927[Not Stated]Beaver Pond
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Puccinia smilacis, not of this specimenPuccinia smilacis Schwein.1900Kellerman W. A.Adams Co.
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1925Muegel, Harry R.Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,074 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bacon Flat: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Plum Run Stone Division QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Adams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Plum Run Stone Div Meigs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Beaver Pond1.8 miles14
Locust Grove2.0 miles13
Peebles2.4 miles13
Pine Gap2.6 miles14
Marble Furnace3.6 miles13
Jaybird3.7 miles14
Smoky Corners4.2 miles17
Steam Furnace4.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062639. 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.