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

Bishopville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Homer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. It stands 2,690 feet above sea level.

Bishopville within Morgan County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bishopville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Bishopville, surveyed 1911

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

19 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Bishopville between 2006 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning9
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
5 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestALDER
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOC FIRE
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest329 BRAVO
17 June 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBURLEY FIRE
3 May 2014Naturalunder an acreWayne National ForestEAST
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15648
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKE ROAD
4 April 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestWATER WORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 83 shown

Museums hold 83 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bishopville between 1898 and 1972: 57 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.D. Huryn, B.R. Bales, Bolen, H. (Harold) 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 Apocynum cannabinum L.Apocynum cannabinum L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrone; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1963William G. Gambill Jr.; L. Mingrowe; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area
Specimen of Campanulastrum americanum (L.) SmallCampanulastrum americanum (L.) Small1963William G. Gambill Jr.; M. JohnsonWolf Creek Wildlife Area.
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Merulius corium, not of this specimenMerulius corium (Pers.) Fr.1908Coker W. C.Chapel Hill
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1911B.R. BalesRinggold
A photograph of the species Ambystoma Tschudi, not of this specimenAmbystoma Tschudi, 18381927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)E. Br. of Sunday Cr., 10 mi NE of Glouster, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927MB Trautman & RB FosterW Branch, Wolf Creek, Penn. Twp
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1932E. L. BraunOn lower tributary of Bundle Run, above falls

All 83 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

8 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Bishopville in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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
May 2010FloodBishopville2 killed, $15,000Roads were flooded, but damage to dwellings was minimal. Two brothers from Athens County died while on a fishing trip. Their flooded vehicle was found along the East Branch of Sunday Creek above Burr Oak Reservoir. Apparently, they drove into the high water at night, during the early morning hours on the 3rd. One body was found inside the vehicle. The second body was not found until the next morning, about a mile downstream.
July 2011Flash FloodBishopville$5,000Rains of 2 to 3 inches fell in an hour. Hyde Fork flooded portions of Route 329.
August 2011Flash FloodBishopville$5,000Small streams, such as Aldridge Run, flooded roads.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBishopville$2,000Several large branches were blown onto the roadway near the town of Glouster, blocking traffic from flowing.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBishopville$2,000Multiple trees were blown down in Burr Oak State Park.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBishopville$750Two trees were blown down near the town of Glouster.
May 2018HailBishopville-no account filed
January 1999HailBishopville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Lewis (historical)2.6 miles19
Vicksville2.9 miles14
Mountville3.4 miles13
Linscott (historical)3.6 miles19
Shilling (historical)4.6 miles13
Wrightstown4.7 miles14
Elliott Crossroads5.7 miles13
Joy6.4 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 BishopvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4918121The 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 1075388. 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.