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

Dexter, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45741. It stands on Grass Run. The Survey maps it on the Rutland quadrangle.

Dexter within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dexter, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Dexter, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

16 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dexter between 2012 and 2020, burning about 24 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6060
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15781
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15198
6 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4253
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4254
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 171 shown

Museums hold 171 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dexter between 1912 and 1970: 143 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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 Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 171 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Dexter in 1 storm report between 2021 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindDexter$3,000Multiple trees were blown down in the community of Dexter in Salem Township.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Buckhorn (historical)1.2 miles13
Martinsburg (historical)1.4 miles13
Dyesville3.0 miles13
Langsville3.2 miles13
Hanesville3.5 miles13
Salem Center4.0 miles12
Danville4.9 miles12
Welsh4.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1039695. 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.