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

Birds Run, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wheeling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43749. It stands on Birds Run. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Birds Run within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Birds Run, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Birds Run, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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 1911 county history

1,530 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wheeling Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wheeling Township - 1,530 words.

Fires nearby

17 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Birds Run between 2013 and 2020, burning about 42 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
26 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8905
3 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8366
13 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10146
12 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10145
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 171 shown

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Birds Run between 1893 and 1970: 131 Fungi, 33 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W.; Adams, S., Aiken 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.1922F. O. GroverBlack swamp
A photograph of the species Stereum spadiceum, not of this specimenStereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.1893Holden Wm.College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Pleurotus nidulans, not of this specimenPleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Polystictus versicolor, not of this specimenPolystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Trametes malicola, not of this specimenTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1895Holden Wm.College Hill
unnamed1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill
A photograph of the species Chlorosplenium aeruginosum, not of this specimenChlorosplenium aeruginosum (Oeder) De Not.1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill
Clitocybe ochropurpurea (Berk.) Sacc.1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill
Corticium martianum Berk. & M.A.Curtis1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

6 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Birds Run in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 flood, 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBirds Run$35,000The Department of Highways reported trees down.
April 2011FloodBirds Run$5,000The intersection of SR 658 and SR 541 west of Kimbolten was closed due to flooding.
April 2024Flash FloodBirds Run-State Route 2658 closed due to flooding.
April 2024Flash FloodBirds Run-State Route 541 closed due to flooding.
February 2019FloodBirds Run-The county emergency manager reported that portions of Hopewell Road were closed due to flooding.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindBirds Run-Estimated by an Acu-rite winds sensor mounted to PVC piping. The sensor eventually became dislodged and blew away.

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Toledoville (historical)0.5 miles16
Flat Ridge3.0 miles16
Guernsey3.0 miles15
Kimbolton4.1 miles15
Boden4.7 miles16
Indian Camp5.1 miles16
North Salem5.7 miles15
Tyner6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064439. 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.

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.