Cole, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Rome Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45735. It stands on Miller Run. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.
Then and now
1904 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1904 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Chesterhill quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Parkersburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Clarksburg quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
30 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cole between 2006 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5926 |
| 5 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15774 |
| 30 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15150 |
| 9 April 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15139 |
| 15 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 March 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7290 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 452 shownMuseums hold 452 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cole between 1831 and 1975: 335 Animalia, 74 Plantae, 39 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813 | 1896 | F. L. Stevens | Athens County |
![]() | Melasmia Lév., 1846 | 1902 | W.A. Kellerman | |
![]() | Ribes L. | 1969 | Dr. Wm. G. Gambill Jr. | 0.25 miles east of Mill Street Bridge on Harmony Road. |
![]() | Myosotis laxa Lehm. | 1831 | C. H. Jones | Orange Twp. |
![]() | Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. | 1896 | Selby, A.D. | Caananville |
![]() | Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta | 1902 | Morse, M. (Max) | Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio |
![]() | Colletotrichum cereale Manns | 1908 | A. D. Selby | Sharpsburg |
![]() | Colletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson | 1918 | Selby A. D. | Athens Co. |
![]() | Cynips Linnaeus, 1758 | 1928 | A. C. Kinsey | Coolville |
![]() | Campostoma anomalum anomalum | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Carpiodes cyprinus hinei Trautman, 1956 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst | Federal Creek, trib of the Hocking River, extreme E Ames Twp |
All 452 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Guysville | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Beebe | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| New England | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Kilvert | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Stringtown | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Big Run | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Frost | 4.3 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075608. 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.

























