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DeCliff, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43341. The Survey maps it on the New Bloomington quadrangle.

DeCliff within Marion County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of DeCliff, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of DeCliff, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of DeCliff between 2005 and 2005, burning about 332 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined332 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesWILDERNESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 245 shown

Museums hold 245 specimens collected within 10 miles of DeCliff between 1929 and 1975: 244 Animalia, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Acker, G., Baumgartner, L., Breiding 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 Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Grand Twp: along Tymochtee Cr., Marion Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tymochtee Creek, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Erimyzon oblongus, not of this specimenErimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Fundulus notatus, not of this specimenFundulus notatus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Ictalurus melas, not of this specimenIctalurus melas (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Pawpaw Run, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Lepomis cyanellus, not of this specimenLepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Tymochtee Creek, within Grand township, near Marseilles, Grand township
A photograph of the species Luxilus cornutus, not of this specimenLuxilus cornutus (Mitchill, 1817)1929MB TrautmanTymochtee Creek, at Marseilles, Marseilles Twnp
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township
A photograph of the species Phenacobius mirabilis, not of this specimenPhenacobius mirabilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)McDonald Creek, within Bowling Green township, near La Rue, Bowling Green township

All 245 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2023

The National Weather Service names DeCliff in 1 storm report between 2023 and 2023: 1 tornado. 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
August 2023Tornado (EF1)Decliff$23,000A brief EF1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 90 mph occurred just south of the intersection of OH-309 and Dry Lane Road North in the La Rue area. As the tornado moved east-northeastward, it caused damage at a residential property along Dry Lane Road North. A portion of an outbuilding's roof was torn-off and several trees were damaged.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
New Bloomington2.1 miles11
La Rue3.1 miles10
Meeker3.2 miles11
Winnemac (historical)3.4 miles10
Holmesville (historical)4.6 miles11
Espyville4.7 miles11
Gurley (historical)4.8 miles11
Big Island6.6 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 DeCliffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85755943The 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 1064515. 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.