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

Elery, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43535. The Survey maps it on the Malinta quadrangle.

Elery within Henry County

Then and now

1908 to 1986

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 Elery, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elery, surveyed 1908

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 Elery between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15847
3 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15240
8 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15239
7 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15949
5 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15888

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 130 shown

Museums hold 130 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elery between 1898 and 1974: 114 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 4 Fungi, 2 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., C.R. Neiswander, Claud Revere Neiswander 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 Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 1775Tabanus atratus Fabricius, 17751937F. Bower
Specimen of Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)Ceraclea cancellata (Betten, 1934)1939Claud Revere Neiswander
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spinosus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spinosus Selys, 18541898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Dromogomphus spoliatus, not of this specimenDromogomphus spoliatus (Hagen, 1858)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Libellula luctuosa, not of this specimenLibellula luctuosa Burmeister, 18391898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Perithemis tenera, not of this specimenPerithemis tenera (Say, 1840)1898J. HineNapoleon
A photograph of the species Fusarium culmorum, not of this specimenFusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc.1919Lewis H. L.Holgate
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Lewis H. L.Holgate
A photograph of the species Roccus chrysops, not of this specimenRoccus chrysops (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Maumee River, within Henry Co, Henry County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Scalopus aquaticus, not of this specimenScalopus aquaticus machrinus (Rafinesque, 1832)1927Hoffman, C. P.Washington Twp., Henry Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma spectabile, not of this specimenEtheostoma spectabile (Agassiz, 1854)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)South Branch Turkeyfoot Creek, within Flatrock township, near Malinta, Monroe township

All 130 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Elery in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 3 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
November 2017Thunderstorm WindElery-Emergency management reported a tree was blown down across the road.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindElery-A trained spotter measured a 64 mph wind gust with an eight inch diameter tree limb down onto a truck.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindElery-Emergency management officials reported trees down at State Route 281, west of State Route 109. In addition, power lines were down near the intersection of State Route 281 and County Road 18.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Malinta2.3 miles12
Grelton4.7 miles12
Shunk4.8 miles12
Holgate4.8 miles12
Hamler5.1 miles11
Countryside Estates6.5 miles12
Westhope6.8 miles12
Napoleon7.1 miles11

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 EleryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24898013The 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 1064607. 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.