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

Calais, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Seneca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43773. It stands on Paynes Fork. The Survey maps it on the Summerfield quadrangle.

Calais within Monroe County

Then and now

1909 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Calais, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Calais, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 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

11 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Calais between 2012 and 2020, burning about 24 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15330
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 March 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources659
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 46 shown

Museums hold 46 specimens collected within 10 miles of Calais between 1860 and 1970: 46 Animalia. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by DAVID M SEVER, DAVID M. SEVER, Dennis, D. M. 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 Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus mexicanus (Linnaeus, 1766)1935Hicks,L.E.Jerusalem
A photograph of the species Sympiesis viridula, not of this specimenSympiesis viridula (Thomson, 1878)1938W.G. Bradley
A photograph of the species Boleosoma nigrum, not of this specimenBoleosoma nigrum nigrum (Rafinesque, 1820)1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1944Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)South Fork, Sec 7 of Summit township, ~3.2 mi NW of Lewisville, Summit township
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381961Dennis, D. M.near shale outcrop in pastureland along St. Rt. 145, 3 mi. SSW Miltonsburg, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1970DAVID M. SEVER5 MI N LEWISVILLE AT STREAM OF RT. 145 / SUMMIT TWP

All 46 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Calais in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 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
July 2013Flash FloodCalais$20,000The 911 Call Center reported Route 379 closed due to flash flooding.
July 2013Flash FloodCalais$15,000The 911 Call Center reported State Route 513 closed due to flash flooding.
July 2003Flash FloodCalais$5,000Widespread flooding in both towns. Parts of State Route 26S flooded near Graysville.
June 1998Flash FloodCalais-Thunderstorm rains produced flooding from Wills Creek onto SR 379 in Calais. Other roads in town were flooded as well.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Herlan3.5 miles13
Doherty3.8 miles13
Brister4.1 miles13
Monroefield4.7 miles13
Burkhart4.7 miles13
Miltonsburg6.1 miles13
Swazey6.4 miles13
Hamilton6.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075505. 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.