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

Beebe, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45778. It stands on Rowell Run. The Survey maps it on the Cutler quadrangle.

Beebe within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beebe, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Beebe, surveyed 1904

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

23 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Beebe between 2006 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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
23 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5926
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7290
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15553
27 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2020Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 297 shown

Museums hold 297 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beebe between 1896 and 1975: 228 Animalia, 35 Fungi, 34 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle 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 Ribes L.Ribes L.1969Dr. Wm. G. Gambill Jr.0.25 miles east of Mill Street Bridge on Harmony Road.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg
A photograph of the species Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
Lepisosteus osseus (Linnaeus, 1758)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib. of Hocking River; extreme E Ames Twp.
A photograph of the species Lepomis megalotis, not of this specimenLepomis megalotis (Rafinesque, 1820)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
Luxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929MB Trautman & asstFederal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp

All 297 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
Stewart2.0 miles14
Kilvert2.6 miles14
Cole2.7 miles14
Frost2.9 miles13
Big Run3.0 miles13
Broadwell3.8 miles14
Guysville3.8 miles14
New England4.6 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BeebeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133526The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075336. 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.