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

Dutch Ridge, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fulton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43515. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle.

Dutch Ridge within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

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 Dutch Ridge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Dutch Ridge, surveyed 1911

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Fulton township, in the words of 1899.

1899, Fulton Township

Colonial Dames Of America

AND FINALLY DESTROYED AT THE OUTBREAK OF PONTIAC'S CONSPIRACY 10TH MAY 1783 WHEN THE FORT WAS BURNED THE ENTIRE GARRISON MASSACRED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE COMMANDANT ENSIGN PAULI WHO WAS CARRIED OFF A PRISONER TO PONTIAC THEN BESIECINC DETROIT ERECTED BY THE OHIO SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA

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In the 1899 county history

538,920 words on this township

The county history of 1899 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fulton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fulton Township - 538,920 words.

Fires nearby

11 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Dutch Ridge between 2006 and 2014, burning about 13 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
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 July 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 July 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 650 shown

Museums hold 650 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dutch Ridge between 1894 and 1975: 633 Animalia, 15 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., Conan J. Taylor, DDT 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 Capnodium Mont., 1849Capnodium Mont., 18491928W.M. BurkettMetamora
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Speyeria idalia, not of this specimenSpeyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)1924Pardon S. RemingtonSwanton
A photograph of the species Carex tetanica, not of this specimenCarex tetanica Schkuhr1925Moseley, E.L.NW of Neapolis
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1926Moseley, E.L.Engles, S of Swanton
A photograph of the species Aureolaria pedicularia, not of this specimenAureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.1927Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W.SE of Brailey
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1927Moseley, E.L.0.5 mi E of Brailey
A photograph of the species Silene noctiflora, not of this specimenSilene noctiflora L.1927Moseley, E.P.near Swanton

All 650 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
Lytton1.0 miles12
Ai1.4 miles12
Swanton Meadows1.7 miles11
Siney (historical)2.4 miles12
Leslie (historical)3.0 miles12
Assumption3.1 miles12
Whiteville4.9 miles12
Swanton5.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062741. 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.