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Darnell, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43072. The Survey maps it on the Thackery quadrangle.

Darnell within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Darnell, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Darnell, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

162,413 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Jackson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Darnell between 2002 and 2002, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 July 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 March 2002Debris and open burning25 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 1,156 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,156 specimens collected within 10 miles of Darnell between 1842 and 1975: 892 Animalia, 205 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 10 Unrecorded, 7 Protozoa, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, A. R. Gaufin, A. R. Gaufin, H. H. Ross 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 Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.Dryopteris × boottii (Tuck.) Underw.1874Beardslee, H.C.Cedar Swamp
Specimen of Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1877J. E. Biddlecome
Specimen of Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.JaegerBrachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger1926E.C. LeonardChapmans Creek, 1 mile east of Thackery
A photograph of the species Pylaisiadelpha tenuirostris, not of this specimenPylaisiadelpha tenuirostris (Bruch & Schimp. ex Sull.) W.R.Buck1842W. S. SullivantCedar Swamps, 6 mi S of Urbana
A photograph of the species Radula complanata, not of this specimenRadula complanata (L.) Dumort.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantprope Urbana Ohionis
A photograph of the species Radula obconica, not of this specimenRadula obconica Sull.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Urbana
A photograph of the species Sphagnum girgensohnii, not of this specimenSphagnum girgensohnii Russow1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1875Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Bryoandersonia illecebra, not of this specimenBryoandersonia illecebra (Hedw.) H.Rob.1876Hannah J. BiddlecomeUrbana
A photograph of the species Ctenidium malacodes, not of this specimenCtenidium malacodes Mitt.1876H. J. BiddlecomeCedar Swamp
A photograph of the species Ctenidium molluscum, not of this specimenCtenidium molluscum (Hedw.) Mitt.1876E. J. Spence10.5 miles north of Springfield
A photograph of the species Geocalyx graveolens, not of this specimenGeocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees1876not recordedCedar Swamp, near Urbana

All 1,156 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
Thackery1.5 miles12
Proctor (historical)2.3 miles12
Terre Haute3.5 miles12
Paris Court East3.8 miles12
Saint Paris4.1 miles13
Nettleton (historical)4.6 miles15
Christiansburg4.9 miles15
Paris Court West4.9 miles13

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 DarnellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133692The 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 1064509. 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.