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

Delta Heights, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1990. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43515. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle.

Delta Heights within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1990

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Delta Heights, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Delta Heights, surveyed 1911

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

15 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Delta Heights between 2006 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning12
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15731
16 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 643 shown

Museums hold 643 specimens collected within 10 miles of Delta Heights between 1894 and 1975: 620 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Conan J. Taylor, DDT, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Edward WilkinsonWauseon
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Gomphus fraternus, not of this specimenGomphus fraternus (Say, 1840)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Sympetrum corruptum, not of this specimenSympetrum corruptum (Hagen, 1861)1898J. HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631902not recordedWauseon
Pucciniastrum agrimoniae (Dietel) Tranzschel1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Pucciniastrum americanum, not of this specimenPucciniastrum americanum (Farl.) Arthur1902W.A. Kellerman
Sarcophaga spatulata Aldrich, 19161902HineWauseon
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA

All 643 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
Delta0.5 miles15
West Delta0.8 miles15
Maplewood Park1.0 miles11
South Delta1.8 miles11
Haller (historical)2.8 miles15
Peaceful Valley3.1 miles11
Plattston (historical)3.7 miles15
Raker Corners3.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1079671. 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.