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

Deadmans, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43701. It stands on Blount Run. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Deadmans within Muskingum County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Deadmans (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Deadmans (historical), surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

47 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Deadmans (historical) between 2014 and 2020, burning about 37 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 burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Other causes	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
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15277
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15278
28 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15264
6 July 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15772
10 June 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15750
10 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15756
10 June 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15751
9 April 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15147

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 820 shown

Museums hold 820 specimens collected within 10 miles of Deadmans (historical) between 1866 and 1975: 595 Animalia, 195 Plantae, 19 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 4 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A.E. Miller, Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Scleroderris rubra Morgan	1891	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
Peziza nana Massee & Morgan	1895	Morgan, Andrew Price	Preston
Frullania saxicola Austin	1896	William C. Werner
Arabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray	1866	Day, D.F.	Dresden
Poa cuspidata Nutt.	1873	W. M. Canby	Zanesville.
Frullania eboracensis Lehm.	1890	W. C. Werner
Porella pinnata L.	1891	W. C. Werner
Porella platyphylla (L.) Pfeiff.	1891	W. C. Werner
Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills, Barrs Mills
Lycogala exiguum Morgan, 1893	1893	Morgan A.P.	Preston
Ortmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)	1893	Smith, Herbert H	Adams Mills
Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey	1898	Selby, A.D.	Trinway

All 820 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Deadmans (historical): 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Baker Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Baker Sand Inc Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 3 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Muskingum R. Gravel Plant No 4 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plant Number 3 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Plant Number 4 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Seville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Seville Road Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Terrace Shores	0.3 miles	15
Gilbert	0.3 miles	15
Maddens (historical)	0.8 miles	15
Drake	1.0 miles	15
Tremleys (historical)	1.3 miles	15
Ellis	2.1 miles	15
Stringtown	2.2 miles	11
Laurel Ridge	2.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1054523. 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.