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

Duch Addition, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43780. The Survey maps it on the Senecaville quadrangle.

Duch Addition within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Duch Addition, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Duch Addition, surveyed 1909

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.

In the 1911 county history

3,384 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richland Township - 3,384 words.

Fires nearby

27 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Duch Addition between 2009 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
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
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8805
20 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16076
31 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2015Natural1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1301
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16079
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16082
28 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 155 shown

Museums hold 155 specimens collected within 10 miles of Duch Addition between 1875 and 1975: 97 Animalia, 55 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W. (William), Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al., Adler, K. K. 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 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 Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Dothiorella Sacc., not of this specimenDothiorella Sacc., 18801910Dawson W.Byesville
A photograph of the species Taphrina caerulescens, not of this specimenTaphrina caerulescens (Desm. & Mont.) Tul.1912Bartenstein T. E.Warrentown
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry

All 155 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
Hickory Grove Cottage Area0.1 miles13
West Shore Cottage Area0.3 miles13
East Shore Cottage Area0.4 miles13
Chestnut Grove Cottage Area0.5 miles13
Echo Point0.5 miles13
Seneca Lake Estates1.9 miles13
New Gottingen2.0 miles13
Gibson2.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1960596. 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.