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.
Then and now
1907 to 1992The 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.


Compare 1907 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 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.
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Shade quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Shade quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
18 since 2008The 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 burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15268 |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15260 |
| 17 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15207 |
| 13 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4285 |
| 9 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15444 |
| 5 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 245 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass. | 1899 | Kellerman, W. A. | FLORA OF OHIO |
![]() | Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Ratibida pinnata (Vent.) Barnhart | 1963 | William G. Gambill Jr. | |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Asplenium trichomanes L. | 1840 | Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John Leonard | Meigs County, Ohio |
![]() | Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl. | 1916 | Nixon, E. L. | Pomeroy |
![]() | Noturus eleutherus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus miurus Jordan, 1877 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Noturus stigmosus Taylor, 1969 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman | Middle Branch of Shade River, SW Orange Twp. |
![]() | Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1929 | Trautman, 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 2001The 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darwin | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Flora | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Midway | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Hemlock Grove | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Snowville | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Kingsbury | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Bucks Mill | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Bunker Hill (historical) | 4.8 miles | 14 |
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 Burlingham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4999179 | The 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.
























