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

Bee, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45672. It lies in Ponetown Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Byer quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bee within Vinton County

Then and now

1913 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bee (historical), surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Bee (historical), surveyed 1913

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

30 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Bee (historical) between 2006 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5348
9 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1381
2 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1001
2 April 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15596

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,517 shown

Museums hold 1,517 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bee (historical) between 1878 and 1975: 1,452 Animalia, 48 Plantae, 15 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A. Spreitzer 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 CalodonCalodon1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
Specimen of Calvatia caelata (Bull.) MorganCalvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
Specimen of Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1940not recordedSouth Bloomingville, 4 mi SW of, Salt Creek, Salt Creek Township
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Gentiana andrewsii, not of this specimenGentiana andrewsii Griseb.1912Brown, F.C.McArthur
A photograph of the species Robinia hispida, not of this specimenRobinia hispida L.1912Crawford, C.G.southern Ohio
A photograph of the species Trametes robiniophila, not of this specimenTrametes robiniophila Murrill1916MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?Coalton
A photograph of the species Coleosporium viburni, not of this specimenColeosporium viburni Arthur1926Hedgcock G. G.Jackson 7 miles Northwest
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pigeon Creek, within Vinton Co, Vinton County, township n/a

All 1,517 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ratcliffburg1.6 miles14
Allensville3.2 miles16
Ray3.4 miles13
Richland5.3 miles12
Cox (historical)5.6 miles14
Eagle Mills5.8 miles14
Royal6.0 miles16
Jimtown8.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062145. 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.