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

Elmwood, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Pickaway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43113. The Survey maps it on the Circleville quadrangle.

Elmwood within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Elmwood, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Elmwood, surveyed 1914

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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Pickaway township, in the words of 1906.

1906, Pickaway Township

William Henry Harrison

the year 1806, two extraordinary men, twin brothers, of the Shawnese tribe, rose among them. One of these was called Tecumseh, or " The Crouching Panther;" the other, OlHwacheca, or "The Prophet." Tecumseh was not only an Indian warrior, but a man of great sagacity, far-reaching foresight and indomitable perseverance in any enterprise m which he might engage.

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Fires nearby

2 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Elmwood between 2007 and 2007, burning about 5 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 burning2

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
21 April 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 October 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,603 shown

Museums hold 1,603 specimens collected within 10 miles of Elmwood between 1845 and 1975: 1,527 Animalia, 70 Plantae, 5 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer & W. LeGrande, A. White, M. Trautman, T. Cavender, Adams, W.; Bartley, F. 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
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
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 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 Pituophis melanoleucus, not of this specimenPituophis melanoleucus (Daudin, 1803)1882not recordedCircleville
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981898not recordedCircleville
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1906Bales, B. R.Darby Creek, Circleville, Pickaway, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica petechia, not of this specimenDendroica petechia aestiva (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1906B.R. BalesCircleville
Phasianus colchicus colchicus Linnaeus, 17581907B.R. BalesCircleville
A photograph of the species Rallus elegans, not of this specimenRallus elegans Audubon, 18341907B.R. BalesCircleville, near
Setophaga petechia (Linnaeus, 1766)1907B. R. BalesNear Circleville
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581908not recordedCircleville

All 1,603 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
Hooven (historical)1.6 miles13
Hayesville2.5 miles13
Meade2.7 miles13
Squawtown (historical)3.0 miles13
Dorney (historical)4.0 miles13
Miller (historical)4.6 miles13
Jefferson Estates4.7 miles13
Thacher4.9 miles13

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 ElmwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133731The 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 1064617. 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.