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

Byer, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45692. It lies in Skunk Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Byer quadrangle.

Byer within Jackson County

Then and now

1913 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Byer, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Byer, surveyed 1913

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

26 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Byer between 2006 and 2019, burning about 147 acres in total. None 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
23 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5145
13 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15176
21 April 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1001
15 April 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1565

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 930 shown

Museums hold 930 specimens collected within 10 miles of Byer between 1878 and 1975: 457 Animalia, 417 Plantae, 55 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans 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 CalodonCalodon1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
Specimen of Calvatia caelata (Bull.) MorganCalvatia caelata (Bull.) Morgan1936Cooke, William BridgeLittle Salt Creek
A photograph of the species Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1915Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
A photograph of the species Trametes robiniophila, not of this specimenTrametes robiniophila Murrill1916MCCLEDROTLE G. A.?Coalton
A photograph of the species Coleosporium carneum, not of this specimenColeosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1925Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
Coleosporium delicatulum (Arthur & F.Kern) Hedgc. & Long1925Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
Coleosporium helianthi (Schwein.) Arthur1925Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
Hypoxylon papillatum Ellis & Everh.1925Hedgcock G. G.Jackson

All 930 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2008

The National Weather Service names Byer in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2010Flash FloodByer$20,000The northbound lanes of Route 327 collapsed over a culvert that is in the Pigeon Creek basin.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindByer-Trees fell across Route 327.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Glen Nell2.4 miles12
Leo3.0 miles13
Lesmil3.6 miles12
Pine Grove3.7 miles13
Garfield4.0 miles14
Morgantown (historical)4.8 miles14
Coalton4.8 miles14
Englishville4.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056746. 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.