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

Elmville, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brushcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Setty Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Spring quadrangle.

Elmville within Highland County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Elmville, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Elmville, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

19 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Elmville between 2005 and 2020, burning about 139 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1088
24 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources823
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15472

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 283 shown

Museums hold 283 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elmville between 1876 and 1975: 164 Fungi, 82 Animalia, 32 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) HafellnerMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
Specimen of Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P.Kumm.1947Keuse, H.O.Fort Hill
A photograph of the species Cordyceps militaris, not of this specimenCordyceps militaris (L.) Link1876W. B. CookeFort Hill State Memorial
A photograph of the species Polysporina simplex, not of this specimenPolysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda1926Muegel, H.R.(?)east of Crooked Creek
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hemidactylium scutatum, not of this specimenHemidactylium scutatum (Temminck, 1838)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)Fort Hill State Memorial, Brushcreek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)Fort Hill State Memorial, Brush Creek Twp., Highland Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Cynthiana, Pike Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea longicauda, not of this specimenEurycea longicauda longicauda (Green, 1818)1930Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Serpent Mound, Bratton Twp., Adams Co., Ohio

All 283 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
Gall (historical)1.9 miles16
North Uniontown2.6 miles16
Turkey3.0 miles16
Sinking Spring3.5 miles16
Lincolnville3.5 miles16
Belfast4.3 miles14
Harriett4.3 miles16
Marshall6.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048705. 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.