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

East Ringgold, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43103. The Survey maps it on the East Ringgold quadrangle.

East Ringgold within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 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 Ringgold, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of East Ringgold, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

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

5 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of East Ringgold between 2019 and 2019, burning about 10 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
Smoking1

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
25 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15340
20 July 2019Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15342
5 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15350
25 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15347
15 October 2019Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15349

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,405 shown

Museums hold 2,405 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Ringgold between 1829 and 1975: 2,195 Animalia, 149 Fungi, 58 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Acker, G. & Class 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 Aecidium galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.1883W. A. KellermanAmanda
Specimen of Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.Phyllactinia corylea (Pers.) P.Karst.1892W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans elegans Audubon, 18341829Florence, A. (Arledge)Col Anderson farm 6 1/2 mi west of Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Caprimulgus vociferus, not of this specimenCaprimulgus vociferus vociferus A.Wilson, 18121876Jones, H. (Howard)Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981877Jones, H. (Howard)Goose Pond, near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hirundo rustica, not of this specimenHirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert, 17831879Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia longicauda, not of this specimenBartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Mearns, E.A.Circleville near Scioto River.
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1880Jones, H. (Howard)Niles Woods, near Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Setophaga ruticilla, not of this specimenSetophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus, 1758)1880Jones, H. (Howard)near Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA

All 2,405 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Ringgold: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Raleigh Spradlin Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Pickaway County

Storms nearby

5 since 2015

The National Weather Service names East Ringgold in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Ringgold$15,000Numerous trees were downed and a barn was damaged along State Route 188 near Winchester Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Ringgold$12,000Numerous trees and power poles were downed near Hargus Lake.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Ringgold$3,000Numerous trees and limbs were downed near Stout Road.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Ringgold$500A tree was downed on Peters Road near State Route 674.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Ringgold$250A large branch fell onto a house along Ringgold Southern Road.

Every storm recorded in Pickaway 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
Walnut2.8 miles12
Nebraska (historical)2.9 miles11
Knollwood Village3.9 miles13
Bridlewood4.0 miles11
Oak Park4.2 miles13
Campus Court4.5 miles13
Northwood Park4.8 miles13
Fairview (historical)5.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064587. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.