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

Dyesville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. It stands on Ogden Run. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Dyesville within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Dyesville, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Dyesville, surveyed 1907

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

20 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Dyesville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources6060
12 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5506
12 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15781
21 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15198
6 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4253
6 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4254
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4626

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 170 shown

Museums hold 170 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dyesville between 1912 and 1970: 143 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Collector unspecified, D. Mote 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 Bunostomum trigonocephalum, not of this specimenBunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808)1912D. MoteCarpenter
Heterakidae1912D. MoteCarpenter
Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923)1912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Oesophagostomum columbianum, not of this specimenOesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 18901912D. MoteCarpenter
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonnii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)1929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asstLeading Creek, trib of the Ohio drainage Langsville, Rutland Twp
A photograph of the species Luxilus chrysocephalus, not of this specimenLuxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp
A photograph of the species Lythrurus umbratilis, not of this specimenLythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929MB Trautman & asst.Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp

All 170 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2012

The National Weather Service names Dyesville in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDyesville$2,000,000Scattered locations had trees blown down. Around 9,400 customers lost electricity. A total of 3 homes were destroyed, which included mobile homes. Major damage was sustained by 28 homes. Minor damage to roofs and porches occurred to 44 homes. Six businesses had minor wind damage. A lot of the damage in the county was concentrated in the villages along the river near Pomeroy. Public buildings at the county fair grounds near Pomeroy were damaged. Two barns were destroyed and 6 others had heavy damage. The public infrastructure damage assessment was around $445,000.||Ten citizens were evacuated in Meigs County and 21 were sheltered, mainly because of the heat and no electricity during the aftermath. Several cooling stations were open and free swimming was offered at the Syracuse pool. ||About a third of the corn and tomato crops were destroyed.
March 2017FloodDyesville$5,000Multiple roads were closed due to flooding along the Shade River, Leading Creek, Thomas Fork and their smaller tributaries.
April 2016HailDyesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Martinsburg (historical)1.6 miles13
Carpenter2.5 miles13
Valley Ford2.8 miles13
Dexter3.0 miles13
Welsh3.4 miles13
Point Rock3.7 miles12
Buckhorn (historical)4.1 miles13
Mount Blanco4.5 miles12

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 Q122556802The 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 1039914. 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.

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.