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

Carpenter, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. It stands on Fivemile Run. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Carpenter within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1980

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 Carpenter, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Carpenter, surveyed 1907

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

19 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter between 2009 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5506
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15781
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15198
6 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4253
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4254
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4626
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11945

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 143 shown

Museums hold 143 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carpenter between 1912 and 1970: 137 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, D. Mote, DAVID M. SEVER 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 Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Micropterus dolomieu, not of this specimenMicropterus dolomieu Lacepède, 18021929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 143 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Carpenter in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 2001Flash FloodCarpenter$50,000Rains of 1.5 to 2 inches fell in 2 hours over wet ground, causing streams to flood in the western portion of the county. Some dwelling around Longsville and Rutland were affected by the high waters from Leading and Little Leading Creeks.
March 2008FloodCarpenter$5,000no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodCarpenter$4,000no account filed
April 2001HailCarpenter-no account filed
August 1996HailCarpenter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Valley Ford1.4 miles13
Dyesville2.5 miles13
Welsh2.6 miles13
Mount Blanco2.9 miles12
Martinsburg (historical)3.9 miles13
Point Rock4.4 miles12
Pageville4.4 miles13
Zeal (historical)4.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1038830. 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.