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

East Ripley, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45167. It stands on Redoak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maysville West quadrangle.

East Ripley within Brown County

Then and now

1915 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 76 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 Ripley, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of East Ripley, surveyed 1915

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.

In the 1883 county history

49,884 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 49,884 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of East Ripley between 2003 and 2003, burning about 0 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 burning1

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
10 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 305 shown

Museums hold 305 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Ripley between 1843 and 1974: 265 Animalia, 33 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, ANSEL JOHN, Ahles, H.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 Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1938R. RhoadesSmall Branch To Ohio River, 1 mile NW Of Higginsport, Lewis Township
A photograph of the species Physcomitrium immersum, not of this specimenPhyscomitrium immersum Sull.1843W. S. Sullivant; A. Grayad fluminis Ohio ripas prope Maysville, Kentucky [bank of Ohio River, near Maysville]
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stictis Pers., not of this specimenStictis Pers., 18001883Kellerman W. A.Cedar Hill
Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercospora sordida, not of this specimenCercospora sordida Sacc.1899King H. B.Ripley
A photograph of the species Cercosporina apii, not of this specimenCercosporina apii (Fresen.) Miura1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
Microsphaera peckii U.Braun1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Microsphaera ravenelii, not of this specimenMicrosphaera ravenelii Berk.1899Patterson Flora W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Polyporus hirsutus, not of this specimenPolyporus hirsutus (Wulfen) Fr.1899Patterson F. W.Ripley
A photograph of the species Uromyces phaseoli, not of this specimenUromyces phaseoli G.Winter1899Patterson F. W.Ripley

All 305 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
Ripley0.5 miles13
Hestoria0.5 miles13
Clems Shady Nook Park0.9 miles13
Stringtown1.7 miles11
Levanna2.9 miles12
Reeds4.7 miles12
Centerpoint4.8 miles12
Redoak5.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055955. 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.