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Emerson, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mount Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43917. It stands on Irish Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dillonvale quadrangle.

Emerson within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Emerson, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Emerson, surveyed 1905

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

7 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Emerson between 2003 and 2019, burning about 24 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources443
10 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 October 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15320

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 130 shown

Museums hold 130 specimens collected within 10 miles of Emerson between 1876 and 1965: 124 Animalia, 4 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Calkins, W. W. 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 Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Ionaspis lacustris, not of this specimenIonaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni1893Calkins, W. W.Short Creek
A photograph of the species Taxonus pallicoxus, not of this specimenTaxonus pallicoxus1924C.H. Kennedy
Halictidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Harrisville, Ohio
A photograph of the species Atrichopogon levis, not of this specimenAtrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)1927not recordedSmithfield
A photograph of the species Bombus affinis, not of this specimenBombus affinis Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631927not recordedJug Run, Smith-field, OH
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1927not recorded"Jug Run, Smith-field, OH"""
Macrophya Dahlbom, 18351927C.H. Kennedy
Macrophya alboannulata Costa, 18591927not recorded

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

Storms nearby

4 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Emerson in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
October 2021Tornado (EF1)Emerson$150,000The National Weather Service conducted a survey off Township Road|102 just southwest of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. The damage was confined|to hardwood and softwood trees. They were either snapped at the |trunk, missing large branches, or uprooted. There was a 100 year |old oak tree that was uprooted. The only structure damage was to a|house, which loss less than 20% of its shingles. |Estimated Maximum Wind Speed...100 mph.|Estimated damage cost was provided by the local emergency manager.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindEmerson$50,000Law enforcement reported trees and large limbs down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEmerson$4,000Trees and power lines down along Rte 213 in Allencreek Twp.
June 1998Flash FloodEmerson-Thunderstorm rains flooded CR 5.

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
Startle (historical)1.1 miles17
Ramsey1.2 miles17
Long Run1.3 miles17
Mount Pleasant1.3 miles17
Dunglen1.7 miles17
Olszeski Town2.2 miles17
Herrick2.3 miles17
Dillonvale2.8 miles17

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 EmersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133732The 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 1064620. 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.