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Bethlehem, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44875. The Survey maps it on the Crestline quadrangle.

Bethlehem within Richland County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bethlehem, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Bethlehem, surveyed 1915

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.

In the county-history sources

30,550 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Sharon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sharon Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bethlehem between 2020 and 2020, burning about 2 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
10 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15952

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 56 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bethlehem between 1839 and 1973: 23 Animalia, 21 Fungi, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Chase, H. (Hazel), E. Wilkinson, Eric G. Chapman 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 Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.ClintonSphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton1897W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Ustilago reiliana J.G.KühnUstilago reiliana J.G.Kühn1897Prof. W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Oakes1839J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Athyrium thelypterioides, not of this specimenAthyrium thelypterioides (Michaux) Desvaux1840J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum Salisb.1869N. L. Brittonnorthern Ohio
A photograph of the species Anemonella thalictroides, not of this specimenAnemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach1892E. WilkinsonRichland County
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1892Wilkinson, E.
A photograph of the species Helophorus lineatus, not of this specimenHelophorus lineatus (Say, 1823)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Hydrobius fuscipes, not of this specimenHydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Deconica atrorufa, not of this specimenDeconica atrorufa (Schaeff.) P.Karst.1906Kellerman, William AshbrookColumbus, Ohio State University, greenhouse
Cercospora beticola Sacc.1929Overholts, L. O.Shelby
A photograph of the species Cercosporella cana, not of this specimenCercosporella cana (Sacc.) Sacc.1929Overholts, L. O.Shelby

All 56 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
Vernon Junction1.9 miles13
Hines (historical)2.3 miles13
East Crestline3.6 miles13
Shelby4.3 miles13
Myers (historical)5.1 miles14
Carefree Estates5.2 miles13
Richland (historical)5.2 miles13
Five Corners5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060868. 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.