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

Cream City, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Saline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43932. It stands on Salt Run. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle.

Cream City within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cream City, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Cream City, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

21 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Cream City between 1994 and 2017, burning about 93 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
23 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 June 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWASHINGTON SCHOOL ROAD
29 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 208
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4609
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryHAMILTON ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 275 shown

Museums hold 275 specimens collected within 10 miles of Cream City between 1890 and 1974: 191 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A.W. Cusick, Acker, G. 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 Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Panicum virgatum, not of this specimenPanicum virgatum L.1909Vickers, E.W.near Wellsville, Ohio, WV bank of Ohio River
A photograph of the species Spartina pectinata, not of this specimenSpartina pectinata Bosc ex Link1909Vickers, E.W.WV side of Ohio River across river from Wellsville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township

All 275 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Cream City: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Iron City Plant and PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Iron City Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dando MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dando MineClayPast Producer
H.K. Porter Brick PlantClayPast Producer
Irondale MineClayProducer
Irondale Works MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Standard Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Irondale0.7 miles22
Hammondsville0.7 miles22
Yellow Creek2.8 miles22
New Somerset3.4 miles22
Holt4.0 miles13
Port Homer4.4 miles22
Sugar Grove5.1 miles22
Knoxville5.4 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048640. 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.