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Burlingham, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45776. The Survey maps it on the Shade quadrangle. It stands 2,195 feet above sea level.

Burlingham within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The 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 sheet of Burlingham, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Burlingham, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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

18 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Burlingham between 2008 and 2020, burning about 20 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15268
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15260
17 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15207
13 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4285
9 March 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15444
5 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 245 shown

Museums hold 245 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burlingham between 1831 and 1973: 214 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Charles M. Roberts, Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard 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 Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) BarnhartRatibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus stigmosus, not of this specimenNoturus stigmosus Taylor, 19691927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asst.Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB TrautmanMiddle Branch of Shade River, SW Orange Twp.
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Middle Branch Shade River, within Orange township, near Chester, Orange township

All 245 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2001

The National Weather Service names Burlingham in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2002: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2001HailBurlingham$5,000Golfball size hail fell along Route 33.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindBurlingham$2,000Trees and large branches were fallen.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Darwin1.4 miles13
Flora2.3 miles13
Midway3.1 miles14
Hemlock Grove3.7 miles14
Snowville3.7 miles13
Kingsbury3.9 miles14
Bucks Mill4.3 miles13
Bunker Hill (historical)4.8 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 BurlinghamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999179The 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 1062417. 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.