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

Bardwell, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45154. The Survey maps it on the Mount Orab quadrangle.

Bardwell within Brown County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bardwell, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bardwell, surveyed 1917

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

1 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bardwell between 2012 and 2012, 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
Debris and open burning1

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 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 365 shown

Museums hold 365 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bardwell between 1886 and 1974: 173 Fungi, 167 Animalia, 23 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 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]
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
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 Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
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
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1924Braun, E. LucySardinia

All 365 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

7 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Bardwell in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBardwell$15,000A garage on Bardwell West Road had its roof removed and some partial wall collapses. Around the property there were numerous tree limbs snapped and and broken off, with several trees pushed over.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Bardwell$10,000The tornado initially touched down on the west side of U.S. Highway 68 near Donley Road where a large tree was snapped and lying across the road. The tornado crossed U.S. Highway 68 causing sporadic tree damage on the east side of the highway. A grove of trees several hundred yards from the road suffered more substantial tree damage with numerous trees either uprooted or snapped. The tornado continued northeast to Hillcrest Road, where a grove of trees on the west side of the road showed sporadic snapped and uprooted trees. A residence on the east side of the road had minor roof damage, a chimney blown off, and several uprooted and snapped trees. The tornado began lifting further to the northeast in the vicinity of Crawford-Day Road, where several trees and large limbs were snapped.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBardwell$8,000Numerous trees and powerlines were downed. Siding was peeled off of a barn.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBardwell$3,000A tree and large limbs were downed. A fence was also blown over.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBardwell$1,000A tree was downed.
April 2019FloodBardwell-High water was reported over Hughes Road, which prompted its closing.
August 2009HailBardwell-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
Mount Orab1.4 miles13
Greenbush1.9 miles13
Bodman2.4 miles13
Centerville2.8 miles13
White Oak3.2 miles13
Eastwood3.3 miles13
Andersonville3.5 miles13
Fivemile4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060842. 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.