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

East Cadiz, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43986. The Survey maps it on the Cadiz quadrangle.

East Cadiz within Harrison County

Then and now

1901 to 1986

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 East Cadiz, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of East Cadiz, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

13 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of East Cadiz between 2005 and 2019, burning about 73 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15187
20 April 2005Debris and open burning31 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources981
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2005Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources586
25 March 2014Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 39 shown

Museums hold 39 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Cadiz between 1889 and 1971: 30 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Fink, B., H. Waters 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
Syrphidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinidae1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township

All 39 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2010

The National Weather Service names East Cadiz in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEast Cadiz$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down north of Cadiz.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindEast Cadiz$2,500Local 911 reported numerous trees down.
July 2025Flash FloodEast Cadiz-Report of water covering the road.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Rexford0.9 miles17
Narva1.2 miles17
Pittsburgh Junction2.0 miles17
Crawford2.1 miles17
Unionvale2.5 miles17
Skit2.5 miles17
Hares Court2.6 miles17
Hopedale2.9 miles17

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 East CadizAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24897949The 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 1061036. 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.