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

East Springfield, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43925. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle.

East Springfield within Jefferson County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 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 Springfield, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of East Springfield, surveyed 1901

Compare 1901 against another survey:

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 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of East Springfield between 2003 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
5 April 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources721
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12909
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12912
12 April 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13765
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 428 shown

Museums hold 428 specimens collected within 10 miles of East Springfield between 1896 and 1974: 342 Animalia, 79 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929MB Trautman & assistantCross Creek, trib of the Ohio River at Broadacre, Wayne Twp.

All 428 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2001

The National Weather Service names East Springfield in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindEast Springfield$2,000Trees down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Springfield-A local resident reported trees down near County Road 60.
April 2001HailEast Springfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Middleburg1.1 miles16
Wolf Run1.9 miles16
Circle Green2.5 miles16
Fairfield2.5 miles17
Annapolis2.7 miles17
Shane3.5 miles17
Amsterdam3.7 miles16
The Eastern3.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064589. 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.