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

Dry Run, Ohio

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1994. It stands in East Liverpool City. It lies in ZIP code area 43920. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the East Liverpool North quadrangle.

Dry Run within Columbiana County

Then and now

1904 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dry Run, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Dry Run, surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

22 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

26 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Dry Run between 1993 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning12
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1

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
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6346
10 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryMIDDLE RUN RD.
21 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15816
19 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryKITCHEL AVE. NEAR NEWELL
7 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15128
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry2507 LOCUST HILL ROAD
6 April 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryAUBURN DR/LOCUST HILL
6 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryNEWELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbiana County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 350 shown

Museums hold 350 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dry Run between 1895 and 1975: 230 Animalia, 105 Plantae, 15 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Athearn, Herbert D., Beer, F.H. 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 Sphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.SalmonSphaerotheca humuli var. fuliginea (Schltdl.) E.S.Salmon1916E.K. SeymourLower campus
Specimen of Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.Polyporus conchifer (Schwein.) Fr.1923F.O. GroverOn Campus
Specimen of Hypochnicium analogum (Bourdot & Galzin) J.Erikss.Hypochnicium analogum (Bourdot & Galzin) J.Erikss.1963W. B. Cooke, V.G. Cookewoods near roadside park, SR-7, 3 mi. s. of Rogers.
A photograph of the species Polyporus luridus, not of this specimenPolyporus luridus Kalchbr.1895Holden Wm.Spring Grove
A photograph of the species Dumetella carolinensis, not of this specimenDumetella carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedEast Liverpool
A photograph of the species Dryopteris carthusiana, not of this specimenDryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P.Fuchs1900Shafer, J.A.[Glasglow], Smiths Ferry
A photograph of the species Alnus serrulata, not of this specimenAlnus serrulata (Aiton) Willd.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, Near Clarkson , Ohio.
A photograph of the species Antennaria plantaginifolia, not of this specimenAntennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Hook.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Epigaea repens, not of this specimenEpigaea repens L.1901Miller, J.Clarkson
A photograph of the species Hetaerina americana, not of this specimenHetaerina americana (Fabricius, 1798)1901E. B. WilliamsonClarkson
Valerianella Mill.1901Miller, J.Rough Run near Clarkson
Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.1901Miller, J.Rough Run, near Clarkson

All 350 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dry Run: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Landsberry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Globe Number 1 MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Globe Refractories, Inc.ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Columbiana 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
East End0.0 miles22
Glendale0.3 miles22
East Liverpool2.6 miles22
Grimms Bridge2.7 miles22
Pleasant Heights2.9 miles22
Jethro3.3 miles22
Calcutta3.3 miles22
La Croft3.4 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067669. 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.