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Derwent, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43733. It stands on Seneca Fork Wills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Byesville quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Derwent within Guernsey County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Derwent, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Derwent, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

36 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Derwent between 2009 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8805
31 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1623
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15665

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 295 shown

Museums hold 295 specimens collected within 10 miles of Derwent between 1875 and 1975: 133 Fungi, 102 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Stereum spadiceum, not of this specimenStereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.1893Holden Wm.College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Pleurotus nidulans, not of this specimenPleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Polystictus versicolor, not of this specimenPolystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Trametes malicola, not of this specimenTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1895Holden Wm.College Hill

All 295 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Derwent in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
June 1998Thunderstorm WindDerwent$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew several large trees and power lines down. One tree fell onto a house trailer.
February 2014FloodDerwent$2,000Wills Creek was in minor flood due ice jams and rainfall, causing flooding of low lying areas near Derwent.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDerwent-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down near Pleasant City.
May 2014HailDerwent-no account filed
May 2014HailDerwent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Pleasant City1.3 miles14
Buffalo1.4 miles14
Fairview1.6 miles14
Lucasburg2.5 miles14
Robins2.8 miles14
Walhonding2.8 miles13
Bluebell2.9 miles14
Byesville3.2 miles14

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 DerwentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5263321The 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 1064534. 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.