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Carefree Estates, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sharon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44875. It stands on Marsh Run. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle.

Carefree Estates within Richland County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carefree Estates, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Carefree Estates, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1880 county history

30,550 words on this township

The county history of 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sharon Township covers organization, water, soil and timber, indian occupation, roads, first settlers, an indian dance, and other reminiscences, first election.

Read the chapter on Sharon Township - 30,550 words.

Fires nearby

2 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Carefree Estates between 2020 and 2020, burning about 4 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15794
10 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15952

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 110 shown

Museums hold 110 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carefree Estates between 1839 and 1975: 62 Animalia, 27 Plantae, 21 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Berra, T. (Tim), Chase, H. (Hazel), Colby, J. 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 Sphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.ClintonSphacelotheca reiliana (J.G.Kühn) G.P.Clinton1897W. A. Kellerman
Specimen of Ustilago reiliana J.G.KühnUstilago reiliana J.G.Kühn1897Prof. W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Oakes1839J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Athyrium thelypterioides, not of this specimenAthyrium thelypterioides (Michaux) Desvaux1840J. WolleBethlehem.
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum Salisb.1869N. L. Brittonnorthern Ohio
A photograph of the species Anemonella thalictroides, not of this specimenAnemonella thalictroides (L.) Spach1892E. WilkinsonRichland County
A photograph of the species Onoclea sensibilis, not of this specimenOnoclea sensibilis L.1892Wilkinson, E.
A photograph of the species Helophorus lineatus, not of this specimenHelophorus lineatus (Say, 1823)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Hydrobius fuscipes, not of this specimenHydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Eric G. Chapman
A photograph of the species Deconica atrorufa, not of this specimenDeconica atrorufa (Schaeff.) P.Karst.1906Kellerman, William AshbrookColumbus, Ohio State University, greenhouse
A photograph of the species Agalinis tenuifolia, not of this specimenAgalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf.1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth
A photograph of the species Arisaema dracontium, not of this specimenArisaema dracontium (L.) Schott1909Jennings, O.E.2-3 mi W of Plymouth

All 110 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
Shelby1.0 miles13
London1.7 miles13
Taylortown3.3 miles14
Vernon Junction3.5 miles13
Myers (historical)3.8 miles14
Hines (historical)3.9 miles13
Forest (historical)4.5 miles13
Ganges4.8 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2516712. 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.