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

East Piedmont, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Moorefield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43977. It stands on Plum Run. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.

East Piedmont within Harrison County

Then and now

1903 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 91 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 Piedmont, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Piedmont, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

8 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of East Piedmont between 2003 and 2015, burning about 8 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1501
5 April 2013Debris and open burning1.1 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 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 115 shown

Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Piedmont between 1889 and 1971: 67 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Buker, W.E. 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 Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
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 Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Stillwater River, within Flusing township, near Piedmont, Flushing 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 atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Stillwater River, within Washington township, near Stillwater, Washington 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 115 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
Piedmont0.1 miles14
Moorefield1.6 miles14
Smyrna2.7 miles14
Freeport3.9 miles16
Nottingham (historical)4.4 miles13
Clendening (historical)4.4 miles14
Cassville5.8 miles13
Tippecanoe7.3 miles14

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 Q122554540The 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 1062463. 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.