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

Beech, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Jersey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43054. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Beech within Licking County

Then and now

1902 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 64 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Beech, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Beech, surveyed 1902

Compare 1902 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Beech between 2009 and 2009, burning about 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 January 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 724 shown

Museums hold 724 specimens collected within 10 miles of Beech between 1881 and 1975: 689 Animalia, 32 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott, Bales, B. R. 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 Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) Ces. & De Not.1896A. P. MorganPreston
Specimen of Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.Hypoxylon microplacum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) J.H.Mill.1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Melanitta nigra, not of this specimenMelanitta nigra americana (Swainson, 1832)1881not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Spinus tristis, not of this specimenSpinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758)1885Jones, J. (Jesse)Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Picoides pubescens, not of this specimenPicoides pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)1886not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981888not recordedOhio, USA
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown
A photograph of the species Corvus brachyrhynchos, not of this specimenCorvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 18221894Mills, W. C.Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1894not recordedAlexandria
Clangula hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1925Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio, USA

All 724 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
Jersey2.4 miles10
Millers Corners3.4 miles10
Panhandle Corners3.4 miles10
Moreland Corners4.7 miles10
Ash4.8 miles10
Tylers Corners4.9 miles10
Fursville5.6 miles10
Summit Station5.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1052170. 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.