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

Clemma, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45623. It stands on Peters Branch Swan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Apple Grove quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clemma within Gallia 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 Clemma (historical), surveyed 2002

Topographic sheet of Clemma (historical), surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

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

88 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Clemma (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	KEISTER RD.
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	18 MILE CREEK
11 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	HOEFT MARSH
7 May 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	OHIO RIVER
1 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	11987
8 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	STONECOAL RUN
6 April 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	ROCKY FORK ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 145 shown

Museums hold 145 specimens collected within 10 miles of Clemma (historical) between 1888 and 1975: 119 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., C. Gilbert & J. Henshall, C.J. Drake 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
Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Near Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)	1888	C. Gilbert & J. Henshall	Raccoon Island, Ohio River
Alternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott	1904	Sheldon J. L.	Mercers Bottom
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Mercers Bottom
Macrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Mercers Bottom
Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.	1904	Sheldon John L.	Ben Lomond
Alternaria solani Sorauer	1905	Post A. Lee	Gallipolis Ferry
Eratoneura osborni (DeLong, 1916)	1915	Drake

All 145 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
Bladen	2.2 miles	15
Halley (historical)	2.2 miles	15
Swan Creek	2.5 miles	14
Eureka	3.3 miles	15
Angola (historical)	4.4 miles	15
Mercerville	4.4 miles	14
Leaper	5.2 miles	14
Crown City	5.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067556. 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.