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

Canyon Villa Estates, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43025. The Survey maps it on the Millersport quadrangle.

Canyon Villa Estates within Licking County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Canyon Villa Estates, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Canyon Villa Estates, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

4 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Canyon Villa Estates between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15708
15 April 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15709
1 March 2009Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15969

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,634 shown

Museums hold 2,634 specimens collected within 10 miles of Canyon Villa Estates between 1843 and 1975: 2,297 Animalia, 260 Fungi, 48 Plantae, 26 Protozoa, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. P. M., A. P. Morgan 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 Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 1758Charadrius vociferus vociferus Linnaeus, 17581884F. S. Robinson
Specimen of Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Philomachus pugnax, not of this specimenPhilomachus pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758)1872Jasper, T. (Theodore)Buckeye Lake, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 2,634 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
Pinecrest Estates0.7 miles11
Sandstone Canyon1.3 miles11
Har-Win Acres1.5 miles11
Hebron1.6 miles14
Luray1.6 miles11
Moscow (historical)2.7 miles14
Wooded Hills2.9 miles11
Union Station3.1 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122564607The 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 1083514. 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.