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Catbird, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45693. The Survey maps it on the Manchester Islands quadrangle.

Catbird within Adams County

Then and now

1929 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Catbird, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Catbird, surveyed 1929

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.

In the 1900 county history

2,667 words on this township

The county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Monroe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Monroe Township - 2,667 words.

Fires nearby

31 since 2000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Catbird between 2000 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Arson/incendiarism12
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15287
30 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryCROOKED CREEK
7 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10105
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2004Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 663 shown

Museums hold 663 specimens collected within 10 miles of Catbird between 1866 and 1975: 403 Animalia, 165 Fungi, 79 Plantae, 16 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. B. Seymour, A. Cronquist 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 Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
Specimen of Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Clavaria formosa, not of this specimenClavaria formosa Pers.1913Fulford, Margaret H.Adams County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Craterellus Pers., not of this specimenCraterellus Pers.1913Braun, E. LucyAdams County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
Scapania undulata (L.) Dumort.1925E. L. BraunWest tributary of Beech Fork
Crotalus horridus horridus1926Watters, G. T. (George Thomas)Green Twp.: Long Lick Run, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Alosa chrysochloris, not of this specimenAlosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Asplenium cryptolepis, not of this specimenAsplenium cryptolepis Fernald1927Braun, E. LucyBuzzard's Roost Rock

All 663 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Catbird: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Ohio QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Beasley Fork2.2 miles14
Bentonville3.2 miles14
Wrightsville3.3 miles14
West Union4.0 miles10
Manchester4.5 miles14
Paradise Hills5.4 miles15
Panhandle5.8 miles10
Gemmer5.9 miles15

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 Q122569684The 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 1062687. 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.