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Creola, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Swan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45622. It stands on Dunkle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Zaleski quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.
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.
Compare 1904 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 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 Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1904 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Zaleski quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
8 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Creola between 2012 and 2020, burning about 10 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 July 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15791 |
| 19 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 945 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 683 |
| 21 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15898 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,171 shownMuseums hold 1,171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Creola between 1900 and 1975: 1,064 Animalia, 65 Fungi, 41 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W., Arden R. Gaufin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr | 1936 | C. C. Green | Waterloo State Forest |
 | Acordulecera dorsalis | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
 | Acordulecera mellina | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
 | Aglaostigma Kirby, 1882 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
| Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
 | Andrena helianthi Robertson, 1891 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States |
| Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Argyra minuta Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892) | 1900 | Hine | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Calobata antennaepes Say, 1823 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States | |
| Capnochroa LeConte, 1862 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, OH, Ohio, United States | |
| Cephalops Fallén, 1810 | 1900 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Vinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States |
All 1,171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
17 since 1998The National Weather Service names Creola in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Creola | $25,000 | A National Weather Service survey team found damage consistent with an EF-1 tornado with estimated winds speeds up to 105 mph. The tornado touched down along Locust Grove Road northwest of McArthur, then paralleled Locust Grove for just under a mile. Hundreds of trees were blown down or snapped. One tree fell on a van. A metal barn had most of its metal roofing ripped off, and thrown about 50 feet away. |
| December 2019 | Flood | Creola | $4,000 | State Route 278 was closed due to flooding along Raccoon Creek and Sandy Run. State Route 677 was also closed due to high water. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $4,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed along Locust Grove Road between Eggleston Road and King Road. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $3,000 | Over two hundred homes were without power in the Creola township and other local areas as a result of nearby downed trees and power lines. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Creola | $2,000 | Several roads were closed due to flooding. State Route 356 was closed due to flooding along Raccoon Creek and Onion Creek. Elk Fork flooded, closing a section of State Route 677. Flooding along Wheelabout Creek closed a portion of State Route 278. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $2,000 | Trees fell onto power lines. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $2,000 | Numerous tree limbs of 3 to 5 inches in diameter were snapped off. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $1,500 | A tree and power lines were knocked down along Locust Grove Road. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Creola | $1,500 | State Route 328 near the town of Creola and Route 278 in Zaleski were both restricted due to high water on the evening of the 3rd. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creola | $1,000 | Large tree branches were snapped off. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Creola | - | Several roads remained closed due to flooding. State Route 356 was closed due to flooding along Raccoon Creek and Onion Creek. Elk Fork flooded, closing a section of State Route 677. Flooding along Wheelabout Creek closed a portion of State Route 278. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Creola | - | Hail as big as quarters fell. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Creola | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Creola | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Creola | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Creola | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Creola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5184197 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075651. 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.
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.