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

Cora, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Polecat Run. The Survey maps it on the Rodney quadrangle.

Cora within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cora, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Cora, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

2 photographs, 1943

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.

Gallipolis, Ohio. Part of crowd at Decoration Day ceremonies
Gallipolis, Ohio. Part of crowd at Decoration Day ceremonies
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress
Gallipolis, Ohio. Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies
Gallipolis, Ohio. Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies
Siegel, Arthur S., photographer, 1943. Library of Congress

Fires nearby

44 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Cora between 2006 and 2020, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism2
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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15829
24 September 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15827
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15786
8 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4487
8 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 149 shown

Museums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cora between 1900 and 1974: 115 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 12 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Evarthrus seximpressus (LeConte, 1846)1901not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1901Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Morse, M. (Max)Vinton, Gallia Co., Ohio
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeGallipolis Ferry

All 149 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 Cora: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. 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
Holley PitStone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousProducer

Every working recorded in Gallia County

Storms nearby

1 since 2025

The National Weather Service names Cora in 1 storm report between 2025 and 2025: 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 2025Flash FloodCora-Flooding was observed on State Route 325 near Rio Grande and Centerpoint Road.

Every storm recorded in Gallia 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
McCormick (historical)0.9 miles13
Siloam (historical)1.3 miles13
Gage2.5 miles12
Hideaway Acres2.7 miles13
Tynrhos (historical)3.2 miles12
Wigner (historical)3.4 miles13
Patriot3.5 miles12
Adamsville3.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075631. 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.