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

Cassville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cadiz Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43973. It stands on South Fork Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Flushing quadrangle.

Cassville within Harrison County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cassville, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Cassville, surveyed 1903

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

13 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cassville between 2005 and 2019, burning about 10 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/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1501
5 April 2013	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 April 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15187
14 April 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7880
12 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	10926
10 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7879
5 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7225

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 101 shown

Museums hold 101 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cassville between 1889 and 1971: 48 Plantae, 48 Animalia, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Buker, W.E., Conan J. Taylor 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Ulmus americana L.	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Uncinula macrospora Peck	1908	Fink, B.	USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Oxalis stricta L.	1889	L. Dickerson
Sinapis arvensis L.	1889	L. Dickerson
Solanum emulans Raf.	1889	L. Dickerson
Pseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.	1908	not recorded	Cadiz
Syrphidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinidae	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
Ericymba buccata Cope, 1865	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)	Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1929	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township

All 101 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nottingham (historical)	1.8 miles	13
Moraville (historical)	4.0 miles	14
Hattonia (historical)	4.2 miles	14
Moorefield	4.2 miles	14
Enfield (historical)	5.0 miles	14
Oak Park	5.6 miles	17
Piedmont	5.8 miles	14
East Piedmont	5.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062686. 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.