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

Bloom Rose, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sterling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45176. The Survey maps it on the Mount Orab quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bloom Rose within Brown 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 Bloom Rose (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Bloom Rose (historical), surveyed 1917

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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bloom Rose (historical) between 2012 and 2012, burning about 0 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
18 November 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 194 shown

Museums hold 194 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bloom Rose (historical) between 1886 and 1974: 120 Fungi, 56 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, Arden R. Gaufin, Baur, Kay E. 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Fomes conchatus (Pers.) GilletFomes conchatus (Pers.) Gillet1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Specimen of Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.1934Kaps, C.Locust Ridge
Chordata1886Smithsonian Institution
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1905Stephens J.Mt. Orab
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1915Fulford, MargaretBlowville Flats
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Usnea subfloridana, not of this specimenUsnea subfloridana Stirt.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Septoria polygonorum, not of this specimenSeptoria polygonorum Desm.1925Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Cercospora elongata, not of this specimenCercospora elongata Peck1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1926Overholts, L. O.Greenbush

All 194 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
Crosstown0.9 miles18
Kirbyville1.9 miles11
Centerville2.9 miles13
Fivemile3.6 miles13
Upper Fivemile3.6 miles13
Eastwood3.9 miles13
Greenbush4.4 miles13
Andersonville4.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067483. 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.