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

Briggs, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 26170. The Survey maps it on the Ellenboro quadrangle.

Briggs within Washington County

Then and now

1906 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Briggs, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Briggs, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

43 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Briggs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 burning17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
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
8 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBONDS CREEK
21 August 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
27 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry1582 HIGHLAND RD
16 July 1999Natural1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD 50
20 June 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryUS RT 50 AT ELLENBORO
2 May 1993Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryELLENBORO
2 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryELLENBORO

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 223 shown

Museums hold 223 specimens collected within 10 miles of Briggs between 1909 and 1975: 184 Animalia, 24 Fungi, 15 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew, E.A., Bonner C. M., D. Hutton 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 Polygonatum Mill.Polygonatum Mill.1967Elizabeth A. Bartholomew
A photograph of the species Puccinia dayi, not of this specimenPuccinia dayi Clinton1909Bonner C. M.Pleasants Co.
A photograph of the species Phragmidium Link, not of this specimenPhragmidium Link, 18161910Sheldon John L.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Phragmidium americanum, not of this specimenPhragmidium americanum (Peck) Dietel1910Sheldon John L.Harrisville
Phragmidium subcorticium (Schrank) G.Winter1910Sheldon John L.Harrisville
A photograph of the species Bufo woodhousii, not of this specimenBufo woodhousii fowleri Hinckley, 18821938LLEWELLYN, LEONARDNEAR RAVEN ROCK
A photograph of the species Dendroica discolor, not of this specimenDendroica discolor (Vieillot, 1809)1938Dickey, S.S.Ellenboro
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus fuscus (Green, 1818)1938MCADAM, RICHARD RNEAR RAVEN ROCK
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon contortrix, not of this specimenAgkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 17991939LLEWELLYN, LEONARDSpecific Locality Unknown
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1939LLEWELLYN, LEONARDRAVEN ROCK
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1939LLEWELLYN, LEONARDRAVEN ROCK
A photograph of the species Nerodia sipedon, not of this specimenNerodia sipedon sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758)1939LLEWELLYN, LEONARDSpecific Locality Unknown

All 223 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
Murphy9.7 miles20
Newport9.9 miles20
Wade9.9 miles20
Leith10.1 miles20
Beavertown10.5 miles19
Bevan10.9 miles20
Newell Run11.8 miles19
Deucher12.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079571. 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.