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

Durgan, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Huntington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. The Survey maps it on the Wilkesville quadrangle.

Durgan within Gallia 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 Durgan, surveyed 1980

Topographic sheet of Durgan, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 Durgan between 2006 and 2018, burning about 172 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 burning	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	2789
21 August 2012	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 May 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 April 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4265

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 93 shown

Museums hold 93 specimens collected within 10 miles of Durgan between 1900 and 1974: 35 Plantae, 34 Animalia, 24 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Bartley, F., Bryant, J.C. 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
Chaetona flavipennis Coquillett, 1902	1900	[Not Stated]	Vinton
Chrysops niger Macquart, 1838	1900	not recorded
Gymnosporangium germinale (Schwein.) F.Kern	1901	Kellerman, W.A.	Vinton
Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Gymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.	1901	Kellerman W. A.	Vinton
Uromyces hedysari-paniculati (Schwein.) Farl.	1901	W. A. Kellerman	Vinton
Lenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.	1905	Ricker P. L.	Bidwell
Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek tributary, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Ictalurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	Little Raccoon Creek, within Bloomfield township, near Rocky Hill, Bloomfield township
Caprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 1812	1932	Long, C. F.	Vinton, Ohio, USA
Agrostis L.	1935	C. H. Jones	Salem Twp.

All 93 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
Ewington	0.7 miles	12
Alice	1.0 miles	12
Vinton	2.6 miles	10
Obad (historical)	3.2 miles	10
Edna (historical)	3.3 miles	11
Rowlesville	4.4 miles	12
Glen Summitt	4.8 miles	10
Woods Mill	5.1 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122545544

The 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 1039890. 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.