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Carlisle, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Stock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43724. It stands on Elk Fork. The Survey maps it on the Stafford quadrangle.

Carlisle within Noble County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carlisle, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Carlisle, surveyed 1903

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

7 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Carlisle between 2015 and 2020, burning about 9 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 burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15254
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15331
16 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15812
16 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8245
27 February 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14981
18 February 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7068
14 November 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2465

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 92 shown

Museums hold 92 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carlisle between 1860 and 1974: 74 Animalia, 12 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & 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 Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 19561929MB Trautman & ass't.Seneca Fork, trib. of Wills Creek, extreme northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanTrib. of the Seneca Fork of Wills Creek, northern Marion Twp.
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Seneca Fork Wills Creek, within Marion township, near Batesville, Marion township

All 92 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Carlisle: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Christman QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Christman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Zergers QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Zergers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble County

Storms nearby

2 since 2003

The National Weather Service names Carlisle in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2003: 2 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
August 2003Flash FloodCarlisle-Routes 724 and 513, plus County Rd 6, closed by flooding.
August 2003Flash FloodCarlisle-Roads flooded.

Every storm recorded in Noble 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
East Union2.5 miles12
Fulda3.1 miles13
Cliffyville (historical)3.2 miles14
Rado (historical)3.3 miles13
Summerfield3.8 miles13
Steamtown4.9 miles13
Middleburg5.1 miles13
Flag5.1 miles14

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 CarlisleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033633The 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 1075525. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.