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

Cooperdale, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43821. It stands on Dickinson Run. The Survey maps it on the Trinway quadrangle.

Cooperdale within Coshocton County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cooperdale, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Cooperdale, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

19 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Cooperdale between 2013 and 2020, burning about 263 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8306
16 May 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8625
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15157
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11168
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11166
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13066
1 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources766
1 April 2014Debris and open burning35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 682 shown

Museums hold 682 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cooperdale between 1846 and 1974: 615 Animalia, 33 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albaugh, W. F., Baumgartner, Baumgartner, L. 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
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Celastrina ladon, not of this specimenCelastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)1924Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lepomis macrochirus, not of this specimenLepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
A photograph of the species Notemigonus crysoleucas, not of this specimenNotemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Ohio Canal, at Adams Mills, 4.4 mi SW of Conesville, Cass township
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571929Hine, D. (Dorothy)Warsaw, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Walhonding R., NW Newcastle Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asst.Walhonding River, trib of the Muskingum River, Northeastern Jackson Twp

All 682 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 Cooperdale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bowerston PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms nearby

3 since 1995

The National Weather Service names Cooperdale in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 2 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
July 2019Flash FloodCooperdale$10,000Local citizens reported water was entering barns, and the Little Wakatomika Creek was running over Township Road 18.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCooperdale$500According to the county Department of Highways, trees were blown down on State Route 60.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindCooperdale-A tree and several large branches were downed by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Wakatomika1.7 miles11
Tunnel Hill2.6 miles11
Graham Corners2.6 miles11
West Bedford2.8 miles11
West Carlisle2.9 miles11
New Moscow5.0 miles14
Tyrone5.2 miles16
Pleasantville (historical)5.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1056969. 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.

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.