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

Custaloga, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44611. The Survey maps it on the Shreve quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Custaloga within Wayne County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Custaloga (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Custaloga (historical), surveyed 1912

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.

Fires nearby

1 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Custaloga (historical) between 2004 and 2004, burning about 1 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 burning1

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
7 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 538 shown

Museums hold 538 specimens collected within 10 miles of Custaloga (historical) between 1895 and 1974: 493 Animalia, 42 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. Weaver, Bruce, W. A. 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 Potentilla norvegica, not of this specimenPotentilla norvegica L.1895Selby, A.D.Millbrook
A photograph of the species Agrostis gigantea, not of this specimenAgrostis gigantea Roth1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TBrowns Lake
A photograph of the species Aster ciliolatus, not of this specimenAster ciliolatus Lindl.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.Tnear Shreve
A photograph of the species Aster simplex, not of this specimenAster simplex C.C.Chang1899Duvel, J.W.TW of Blachleysville
A photograph of the species Bidens cernua, not of this specimenBidens cernua L.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TKillbuck Swamp
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1899Duvel, J.W.TBlacklysville
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1899Duvel, J.W.T.Brown's Lake
A photograph of the species Cirsium arvense, not of this specimenCirsium arvense (L.) Scop.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.Blachleysville
A photograph of the species Cuscuta pentagona, not of this specimenCuscuta pentagona Engelm.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TBlachleysville
A photograph of the species Glyceria canadensis, not of this specimenGlyceria canadensis (Michx.) Trin.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TW of Blachleysville
A photograph of the species Ilex verticillata, not of this specimenIlex verticillata (L.) A.Gray1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TBrown's Lake
A photograph of the species Lysimachia terrestris, not of this specimenLysimachia terrestris (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1899Selby, A.D.; Duvel, J.W.TBrown's Lake

All 538 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Centerville1.7 miles13
Shreve2.8 miles13
Craigton3.2 miles13
Stringtown4.4 miles18
Horace (historical)4.4 miles13
Springville5.0 miles13
Millbrook5.2 miles13
Kauke5.5 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q27031118The 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 1062452. 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.