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

Cloverleaf, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43545. The Survey maps it on the Napoleon East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cloverleaf within Henry County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cloverleaf (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Cloverleaf (historical), surveyed 1908

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

3 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cloverleaf (historical) between 2020 and 2020, burning about 7 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
Smoking2
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
6 July 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15775
5 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15820
18 November 2020Smoking4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources16006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 64 shown

Museums hold 64 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cloverleaf (historical) between 1898 and 1975: 56 Animalia, 4 Fungi, 2 Plantae, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Dabney Hart, G. Steyskal 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 Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.Urocystis occulta (Wallr.) Rabenh.1919W.G. StoverLiberty Center
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Liberty Center
Helminthosporium gramineum Rabenh. ex Schltdl.1919Lewis H. L.Ridgeville Corners
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Napoleon
A photograph of the species Camelina sativa, not of this specimenCamelina sativa (L.) Crantz1927Moseley, E.L.Wabash RR, Washington Twp
A photograph of the species Carpiodes carpio, not of this specimenCarpiodes carpio (Rafinesque, 1820)1927MB TroutmanBad Creek, near and at border.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes cyprinus, not of this specimenCarpiodes cyprinus (Lesueur, 1817)1927MB TrautmanBad Creek, near and at border of Henry Co.
A photograph of the species Carpiodes velifer, not of this specimenCarpiodes velifer (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Bad Creek, Washington Township, near Liberty Center, Washington township

All 64 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 Cloverleaf (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Gerken DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Ratsville0.0 miles12
Naomi3.7 miles11
Gerald3.7 miles11
Liberty Center4.1 miles12
Damascus (historical)5.0 miles12
Lueneburg5.2 miles11
Valleybrook Estates5.5 miles11
Glenwood Estates6.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1050154. 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.