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

Carlton, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 45620. It stands on Storys Run. The Survey maps it on the Cheshire quadrangle.

Carlton within Gallia County

Then and now

1908 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Carlton, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Carlton, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

13 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Carlton between 1995 and 2019, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15262
13 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryCAMP CONLEY
16 April 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4350
13 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 213 shown

Museums hold 213 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carlton between 1862 and 1973: 112 Fungi, 55 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 11 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer, W. A., CLACK, LINDSAY, Collector(s): W. Perrygo 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 Carex communis, not of this specimenCarex communis var. communis1862W. M. CanbyCheshire. [Inferred county from precise loc.]
A photograph of the species Coleosporium sonchi-arvensis, not of this specimenColeosporium sonchi-arvensis (Pers.) Lév.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces hedysari-paniculati, not of this specimenUromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.1891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Uromyces trifolii, not of this specimenUromyces trifolii (R.Hedw.) Lév., 18471891Millspaugh C. F.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1904Sheldon, John L.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Alternaria cucumerina, not of this specimenAlternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott1904Sheldon J. L.Point Pleasant
Cercospora citrullina Cooke1904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant
Fusarium Link, 18091904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant
A photograph of the species Macrosporium cucumerinum, not of this specimenMacrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh.1904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant
Sphaerotheca pannosa (Wallr.) Lév.1904Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant
Actinonema rosae (Lib.) Fr.1905Sheldon John L.Point Pleasant

All 213 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Carlton in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2014HailCarlton$15,000The large hail fell along Oxyer Road.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCarlton$1,000Several trees were blown down near Lakin.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
Cheshire1.5 miles16
Kyger3.2 miles15
Tara Estates5.9 miles15
Addison5.9 miles15
Bulaville6.3 miles15
Eno7.4 miles15
Gilmore Heights8.3 miles16
Kanauga8.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048582. 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.