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

Cavallo, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Tiverton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43843. The Survey maps it on the Brinkhaven quadrangle.

Cavallo within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cavallo, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Cavallo, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

2 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cavallo between 2014 and 2015, burning about 5 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 November 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 November 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2706

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 215 shown

Museums hold 215 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cavallo between 1898 and 1974: 214 Animalia, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Stein, C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Cavender, M. (Marlin) 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 Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
Specimen of Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1903V. SterkiTuscarawas River
Specimen of Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)1905C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. JenkinsonNewcastle Township, Mohican River, just above its confluence with Kokosing River
A photograph of the species Encoptolophus sordidus, not of this specimenEncoptolophus sordidus (Burmeister, 1838)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Melanoplus differentialis, not of this specimenMelanoplus differentialis (Thomas, 1865)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Scudderia furcata, not of this specimenScudderia furcata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 18781925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Tettigidea lateralis, not of this specimenTettigidea lateralis parvipennis (Harris, 1841)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstWalhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Newcastle Twp
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Walhonding R., NW Newcastle Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio

All 215 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cavallo: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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
Glenmont Quarry No. 24Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Briar Hill Stone QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Scott QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Walhonding Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Walhonding Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coshocton 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
Tiverton Center2.1 miles12
Owls Town (historical)3.8 miles12
Walhonding4.0 miles12
Newcastle5.4 miles12
Bluff (historical)5.4 miles11
New Princeton6.4 miles10
Spring Mountain6.7 miles10
Nellie7.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1060931. 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.