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

Carsey Town, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lodi Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. It stands on Duck Run. The Survey maps it on the Athens quadrangle.

Carsey Town within Athens 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 Carsey Town, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Carsey Town, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

11 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Carsey Town between 2007 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
14 April 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15462
25 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7628
2 March 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10546
19 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10548

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,104 shown

Museums hold 1,104 specimens collected within 10 miles of Carsey Town between 1831 and 1975: 948 Animalia, 128 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower, Barnes, R. 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica var. longespica1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061898N. Roberts
A photograph of the species Quercus minor, not of this specimenQuercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
Melasmia Lév., 18461902Kellerman, W.A.Athens
A photograph of the species Erasmoneura vulnerata, not of this specimenErasmoneura vulnerata (Fitch, 1851)1905not recorded
Eratoneura affinis (Fitch, 1851)1905H.T. Osborn

All 1,104 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
Anthony1.7 miles13
Hull2.1 miles14
Shade2.3 miles13
Lysander3.1 miles21
Garden3.4 miles13
Stringtown3.7 miles14
Pratts Fork4.0 miles13
Hickory Hills4.1 miles21

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 Q122545723The 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 1075531. 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.