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Burr Oak, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Trimble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45732. It stands on Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Corning quadrangle. It stands 2,369 feet above sea level.

Burr Oak within Athens County

Then and now

1911 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Burr Oak, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Burr Oak, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

25 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Burr Oak between 2006 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLITTLE
12 August 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBOC FIRE
17 June 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWayne National ForestBURLEY FIRE
6 May 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestOLD 78 FIRE
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKE ROAD
30 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest329
3 April 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National ForestHUNTERDON FIRE
27 April 2018Smokingunder an acreWayne National ForestTRIMBLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 53 shown

Museums hold 53 specimens collected within 10 miles of Burr Oak between 1898 and 1971: 44 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolen, H. (Harold), Collector(s): John W. Meldrim, E. L. Braun 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
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631916not recorded
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger1919L. BonarGlouster
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon cinereus, not of this specimenPlethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)1929Hicks, L. E. (Lawrence E.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)near Buchtel, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Fontinalis sphagnifolia, not of this specimenFontinalis sphagnifolia (Müll.Hal.) Wijk & Margad.1932E. L. BraunOn lower tributary of Bundle Run, above falls
Synandra hispidula (Michx.) Britton1939F. BartleyAlong Ohio Brush Creek near Jacksonville
Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 19741940J. D. Walker
Sweltsa hoffmani Kondratieff & Kirchner, 20091940J. D. Walker

All 53 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
Palos1.4 miles14
Hartleyville2.1 miles14
McLeish2.3 miles14
Oakdale2.6 miles14
Glouster3.5 miles14
Hollister4.0 miles14
Hunterdon4.1 miles14
Trimble4.6 miles19

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 Burr OakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5000324The 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 1075490. 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.