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

Douglas, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Milton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44276. The Survey maps it on the Rittman quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Douglas within Wayne County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Douglas (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Douglas (historical), surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

10 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Douglas (historical) between 2002 and 2002, burning about 31 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
31 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,745 shown

Museums hold 1,745 specimens collected within 10 miles of Douglas (historical) between 1877 and 1975: 1,343 Animalia, 216 Plantae, 145 Fungi, 40 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A. D. Selby, A. E. Good 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1930	B. Montgomery & J. Houser	2 miles northeast of Wooster
Aster ciliolatus Lindl.	1877	Thorne, B.H.	Station Farm, Wooster
Chelidon Forster, 1817	1889	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooster, Wayne, Ohio, USA
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Catharus guttatus faxoni (Bangs & T.E.Penard, 1921)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Catharus ustulatus swainsoni (Tschudi, 1845)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Certhia americana americana Bonaparte, 1838	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Corthylio calendula calendula	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Cyanocitta cristata bromia Oberholser, 1921	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster
Dryobates pubescens medianus (Swainson, 1832)	1890	Harry C. Oberholser	Wooster

All 1,745 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hermanville	2.1 miles	16
Five Points	3.3 miles	15
Jackson	3.4 miles	16
Johnsons Corners	3.4 miles	16
Sterling	3.8 miles	16
Smithville	3.8 miles	15
Canaan	4.0 miles	16
Spruce Tree Village	4.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067271. 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.