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Delmont, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hocking Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43130. It stands on Allen Knob. The Survey maps it on the Amanda quadrangle.

Delmont within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delmont, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Delmont, surveyed 1907

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 1901 county history

1,063 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Hocking Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Hocking Township - 1,063 words.

Fires nearby

13 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Delmont between 2007 and 2020, burning about 19 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15201
24 May 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1581
5 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources742
18 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1042
12 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1041
8 March 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15458
22 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources741
19 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources524

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 3,124 shown

Museums hold 3,124 specimens collected within 10 miles of Delmont between 1839 and 1975: 2,349 Animalia, 528 Fungi, 232 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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.

All 3,124 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Delmont: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Davis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Davis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fairfield County

Storms nearby

4 since 2016

The National Weather Service names Delmont in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 2021Thunderstorm WindDelmont$2,000Two trees were downed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDelmont$1,000A tree was knocked down along Mt. Zion Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDelmont$500Tree limbs between two and five inches in diameter were knocked down.
February 2022FloodDelmont-Numerous roads were closed throughout the county due to high water, especially in Madison Township.

Every storm recorded in Fairfield 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
Hamburg2.2 miles12
Amanda4.1 miles12
Clearport4.2 miles13
Colonial Estates4.5 miles12
Pine Lake Estates4.6 miles13
Carpenters Addition4.6 miles13
Hooker4.6 miles12
Tarhe Town (historical)4.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064526. 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.

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.