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Bulaville, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Addison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It lies in Honey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle.

Bulaville within Gallia County

Then and now

1908 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Bulaville, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Bulaville, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

40 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Bulaville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2

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
13 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
8 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryPUMPKIN RUN
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2016Debris and open burning20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4266
4 April 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2 & 62

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 344 shown

Museums hold 344 specimens collected within 10 miles of Bulaville between 1862 and 1973: 169 Animalia, 118 Fungi, 43 Plantae, 12 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., Babcocks D. O., CLACK, LINDSAY 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 Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 19021900[Not Stated]Vinton
Specimen of Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & PeckGymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck1901W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States

All 344 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bulaville: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Eppling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Queen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Storms nearby

2 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Bulaville in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBulaville$6,000Multiple trees and power poles were downed onto roadways in Cheshire, including Addison Pike, Poplar Ridge Road, Little Kyger Road, and Roush Hollow.
April 2021Funnel CloudBulaville-A funnel cloud was observed by a trained spotter near Bulaville and persisted for two minutes. This area of rotation had spawned a wall cloud earlier in the evening near the Huntington Airport in West Virginia.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Tara Estates1.9 miles15
Addison2.2 miles15
Prospect Hill (historical)3.3 miles15
Gilmore Heights4.0 miles16
Westbrook Village4.4 miles16
Kanauga4.4 miles16
Mills4.5 miles16
Kerr4.5 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122571354The 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 1062677. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.