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

Berrysville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Berrysville within Highland 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 Berrysville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Berrysville, surveyed 1917

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.

Fires nearby

6 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Berrysville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 14 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 March 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15940

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 836 shown

Museums hold 836 specimens collected within 10 miles of Berrysville between 1876 and 1975: 586 Animalia, 181 Fungi, 64 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, 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 Aecidium asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
Specimen of Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) HafellnerMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
A photograph of the species Cordyceps militaris, not of this specimenCordyceps militaris (L.) Link1876W. B. CookeFort Hill State Memorial
A photograph of the species Dizygopleura Ulrich, not of this specimenDizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)1921Bucher & E. Ulrich.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Cololejeunea biddlecomiae, not of this specimenCololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Reboulia hemisphaerica, not of this specimenReboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631926not recorded
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #1 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a

All 836 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Berrysville: 2 past producers. None of them 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
Main PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Highland County

Storms nearby

4 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Berrysville in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindBerrysville$1,000A tree was knocked down near Berrysville Road.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindBerrysville$1,000One tree was downed near Buckley Road and Route 247 due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Flash FloodBerrysville-High water was reported on State Route 247 at Ohio Brush Creek, north of Folsom.
May 2024Flash FloodBerrysville-High water was reported over State Route 247 at South Fork Rocky Fork.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Prospect0.5 miles14
Folsom2.9 miles14
Harriett3.7 miles16
Marshall4.2 miles17
North Uniontown4.6 miles16
Belfast4.7 miles14
Rocky Fork Point5.6 miles17
South Beach5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064424. 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.

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.