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Dundas, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45634. It stands on McConnel Run. The Survey maps it on the McArthur quadrangle.

Dundas within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dundas, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Dundas, surveyed 1905

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

29 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Dundas between 2006 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
14 September 2015Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1801
28 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4647
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15175
16 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4066
8 March 2014Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,229 shown

Museums hold 1,229 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dundas between 1878 and 1975: 1,161 Animalia, 47 Plantae, 20 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., Adams, K.; Bitner, E., Adams, W. 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 Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Acordulecera dorsalis, not of this specimenAcordulecera dorsalis1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Acordulecera mellina, not of this specimenAcordulecera mellina1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Aglaostigma Kirby, not of this specimenAglaostigma Kirby, 18821900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Agrypon melleum (Cresson, 1872)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Andrena helianthi, not of this specimenAndrena helianthi Robertson, 18911900not recordedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Arge clavicornis (Fabricius, 1781)1900not recordedVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States
Argyra minuta Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, OH, Ohio, United States
Boettcheria cimbicis (Townsend, 1892)1900HineVinton, Vinton Co., OH, Vinton, Vinton, Ohio, United States

All 1,229 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dundas: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hamden Pit Number 2ClayPast Producer
Vinton County Highway Dept QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Vinton County

Storms nearby

13 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Dundas in 13 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash 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
May 2012Flash FloodDundas$5,000Racoon Creek flooded portions of State Route 278. Other smaller streams flowed across roads. No dwellings were flooded.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDundas$2,000A tree fell onto power lines along State Route 683.
June 2018FloodDundas$2,000Several roads were closed due to high water across eastern Vinton County. This included US Route 50, between McArthur and State Route 356. State Routes 56 and 328 were also closed.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindDundas$1,500Downed trees and power lines resulted in local power outages in the area of Hamden.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDundas$1,000One large tree was blown down onto Depue Road near the town of McArthur.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindDundas$1,000A few trees were blown down along DePue Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindDundas$500A power line was blown down onto State Route 93 due to a fallen tree.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDundas$500Multiple trees were blown down along Route 93 in the Dundas community.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDundas$250A tree was blown down along Shiloh Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDundas$250A tree was blown down in the town of Dundas.
April 2025FloodDundas-State Route 683 between State Route 93 and Bolar Road, State Route 671 between State Route 327 and US 50, and US 50 between Memory Lane and State Route 683 were closed due to flooding.
June 2025Flash FloodDundas-High water was observed on one lane of State Route 683 near the intersection with Murphy Remy Road.
July 2025FloodDundas-In the Dundas township, flooding was observed at the intersection of State Route 683 and Buskirk Road.

Every storm recorded in Vinton 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
McArthur3.0 miles13
Puritan3.1 miles13
Vinton3.6 miles13
Hamden3.9 miles12
Red Diamond4.4 miles15
Oreton4.5 miles13
Prattsville5.3 miles13
Elk Fork5.5 miles15

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 DundasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033989The 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 1064565. 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.

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.