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Dart, Ohio

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45750. It stands on Hog Run. The Survey maps it on the Belmont quadrangle.

Dart within Washington County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Dart, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Dart, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 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 1902 county history

14,305 words on this township

The county history of 1902 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Lawrence Township covers general physical features and geological formation, first settlement, old families, eccentric characters, german emigration, scotch emigration.

Read the chapter on Lawrence Township - 14,305 words.

Fires nearby

18 since 2001

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Dart between 2001 and 2019, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest15 MILE FIRE
13 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE
1 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestTUESDAY FIRE
5 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresWayne National Forest15 MILE
3 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWayne National ForestMT. PISGAH
15 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources890
24 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.1 acresWayne National ForestSTATE ROUTE 26
19 March 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresWayne National ForestNEFF RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 259 shown

Museums hold 259 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dart between 1853 and 1975: 240 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, B. F. Story, BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B 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
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1932C. MayMarietta
Specimen of Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.FuchsDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1941Meddles, O.; Steele, M.Millwood Twp. From rich woods (lilly), along Putney Ridge between Quaker City and Salesville.
Specimen of Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1961Robert Gray; Charles O. Wingo Jr.Route 21, 3 miles north of Marietta.
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Puccinia dayi, not of this specimenPuccinia dayi Clinton1909Bonner C. M.Pleasants Co.
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstE Fork of Duck Creek, trib of Duck Creek, wtihin 0.5 mi of mouth, Salem Twp

All 259 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 1999

The National Weather Service names Dart in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDart$2,000Trees were blown down.
July 2005HailDart-no account filed
April 1999HailDart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Steel Run0.8 miles19
Fay1.3 miles19
Heslop2.1 miles15
Moss Run2.3 miles19
Schley3.2 miles19
Cow Run3.2 miles19
Gracey3.4 miles19
Shay3.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075682. 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.