Boden, Ohio
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43762. It stands on Twin Sister Knobs. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle.
Then and now
1909 to 1994The 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 sheets covering this place
16 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1912 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
In the 1911 county history
507 words on this townshipThe 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 Knox Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Knox Township - 507 words.
Fires nearby
28 since 2009The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Boden between 2009 and 2020, burning about 147 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 burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15863 |
| 3 June 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8366 |
| 14 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14405 |
| 13 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10146 |
| 12 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10145 |
| 7 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 27 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 75 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 201 shownMuseums hold 201 specimens collected within 10 miles of Boden between 1893 and 1972: 131 Fungi, 37 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis. | 1902 | F.O. Grover | Black Swamp |
![]() | Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc. | 1922 | F. O. Grover | Black swamp |
![]() | Stereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél. | 1893 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
| Favolus europaeus Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill | |
![]() | Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Polystictus versicolor (L.) Fr. | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
![]() | Trametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1895 | Holden Wm. | College Hill |
| unnamed | 1896 | Lloyd C. G. | College Hill | |
![]() | Chlorosplenium aeruginosum (Oeder) De Not. | 1896 | Lloyd C. G. | College Hill |
| Clitocybe ochropurpurea (Berk.) Sacc. | 1896 | Lloyd C. G. | College Hill | |
| Corticium martianum Berk. & M.A.Curtis | 1896 | Lloyd C. G. | College Hill |
All 201 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat Ridge | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mantua | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Indian Camp | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Toledoville (historical) | 4.4 miles | 16 | |
| Birds Run | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| College Hill | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Oldham | 6.3 miles | 15 | |
| Tyner | 7.0 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048530. 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.























