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

Cline, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45734. It stands on Dye Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Rinard Mills quadrangle.

Cline within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cline, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cline, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Nathaniel Cline House, South side of County Road 68, Cline, Monroe County, OH
Nathaniel Cline House, South side of County Road 68, Cline, Monroe County, OH
Unattributed, . Library of Congress

Fires nearby

14 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Cline between 2013 and 2020, burning about 32 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/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
2 May 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWayne National ForestLAMPING FIRE
9 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresWayne National ForestOLD CAMP ROAD
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources648
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources769

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 317 shown

Museums hold 317 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cline between 1853 and 1975: 300 Animalia, 9 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island- above Glacial Grooves quarry.
A photograph of the species Dysphania botrys, not of this specimenDysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants1911O. E. JenningsKelly's Island-edges of Glac.; grooves quarry.

All 317 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Cline in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2022FloodCline$1,000Heavy rain caused a portion of SR26 to close due to flooding.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCline$500Trained spotter reported trees down on Witten Creek Road.
June 2019Flash FloodCline-The county OHDOT office reported that Witten Creek flooded in response to heavy rainfall.
April 2018FloodCline-State official reported flooding at the two mile marker bridge known as the Dye Dip.
September 2011HailCline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Rinard Mills1.6 miles16
Poulton2.0 miles18
Way2.6 miles17
Jericho2.9 miles18
Greenbrier3.1 miles17
Quarry (historical)3.4 miles16
Marr3.8 miles17
Cross Keys (historical)4.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075590. 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.