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

Cebee, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45669. It stands on Nancy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle.

Cebee within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cebee, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cebee, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

96 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Cebee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 592 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Debris and open burning33
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
4 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1822
29 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11367
1 August 2013Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1404
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13666
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 878 shown

Museums hold 878 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cebee between 1840 and 1974: 653 Animalia, 120 Plantae, 82 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
Specimen of Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Eragrostis reptans, not of this specimenEragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees1880T Meehan
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Coniothyrium fuckelii, not of this specimenConiothyrium fuckelii Sacc.1904Brooks Fred E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Venturia inaequalis, not of this specimenVenturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter1904Brooks F. E.Huntington
A photograph of the species Haematoloechus longiplexus, not of this specimenHaematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 19021905Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David ZamparoHuntington
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze1909Summers, T. B.Huntington
A photograph of the species Coprinus Pers., not of this specimenCoprinus Pers., 17971909SambertBarboursville

All 878 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Cebee in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindCebee$15,000The roof of a mobile home was blown off along Township Road 309 in Chesapeake.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCebee$2,000Multiple trees were blown down onto County Road 401, blocking both lanes of traffic.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCebee-Noted by a member of the public.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Bartramville1.7 miles20
Scottown2.3 miles15
Dobbston3.2 miles15
Platform3.4 miles16
Ida (historical)4.0 miles15
Athalia4.3 miles16
Polkadotte4.7 miles16
Belle Court4.7 miles19

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 Q122594462The 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 1075539. 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.