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Colonial Estates, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Greenfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amanda quadrangle.

Colonial Estates within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Colonial Estates, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Colonial Estates, surveyed 1907

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.

In the 1901 county history

5,578 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Greenfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Greenfield Township - 5,578 words.

Fires nearby

8 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Estates between 2015 and 2020, burning about 13 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 burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15338
5 July 2020Fireworks1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15801
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15201
16 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15761
5 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources742
8 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15458
19 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources524
4 November 2020Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15878

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,566 shown

Museums hold 2,566 specimens collected within 10 miles of Colonial Estates between 1843 and 1975: 1,875 Animalia, 517 Fungi, 163 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Bales, B. R., Birch, W. 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 Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 18291890Detmers, FredaSugar Grove
Specimen of Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1891M. CraigSugar Grove
Specimen of Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Phyllogonium norvegicum, not of this specimenPhyllogonium norvegicum Brid.1843Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Bruchia flexuosa, not of this specimenBruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Dicranodontium denudatum, not of this specimenDicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton1849C. L. Lesquereux
A photograph of the species Dicranum condensatum, not of this specimenDicranum condensatum Hedw.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Aecidium Pers., not of this specimenAecidium Pers.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium cimicifugatum (Schwein.) Sacc.1883W. A. KellermanNear Amanda
Aecidium compositarum Mart.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda

All 2,566 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Colonial Estates: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Brewer Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Favil PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Igel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jimmys PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Hooker0.7 miles12
Dumontville2.9 miles12
Lancaster3.3 miles13
Carpenters Addition3.3 miles13
Rock Mill3.4 miles12
Tarhe Town (historical)3.6 miles13
Wacker Heights3.7 miles13
Whites4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2460911. 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.