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

Claylick, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43056. It stands on Claylick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle.

Claylick within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Claylick, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Claylick, surveyed 1909

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

11 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Claylick between 2014 and 2020, burning about 20 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 burning7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12545
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources842
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 February 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15073
17 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7054
17 February 2017Debris and open burning5.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6866
17 February 2017Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6865

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 671 shown

Museums hold 671 specimens collected within 10 miles of Claylick between 1893 and 1975: 618 Animalia, 43 Fungi, 10 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
Specimen of Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.Coleosporium asterum (Dietel) Syd. & P.Syd.1922E. B.Newark
Specimen of Puccinia asteris DubyPuccinia asteris Duby1922E. Bartholomew
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Anas discors, not of this specimenAnas discors Linnaeus, 17661896E. B. WilliamsonLicking Reservoir
A photograph of the species Chara contraria, not of this specimenChara contraria Kütz.1897E. B. WilliamsonNewark
A photograph of the species Perlesta ephelida, not of this specimenPerlesta ephelida Grubbs & DeWalt, 20121899not recordedNewark
A photograph of the species Perlinella ephyre, not of this specimenPerlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)1899not recordedNewark
A photograph of the species Efferia Coquillett, not of this specimenEfferia Coquillett, 18931901Collector(s): Raymond C. OsburnNewark
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461926not recordedCold Springs, within Licking Co (location in doubt), Licking County, township n/a

All 671 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 Claylick: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jones Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Licking 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
Marne1.5 miles12
Hanover2.0 miles12
Ben2.6 miles12
Swans3.3 miles12
Boston3.4 miles11
Toboso3.7 miles11
Reform5.7 miles11
Wilkins Run5.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070715. 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.