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

England, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44805. It stands on Newell Run. The Survey maps it on the Jeromesville quadrangle.

England within Ashland County

Then and now

1906 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of England, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of England, surveyed 1906

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 England between 2019 and 2020, burning about 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15242
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15259
16 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15164
11 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15155
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15942

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 315 shown

Museums hold 315 specimens collected within 10 miles of England between 1846 and 1975: 294 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, B Zahuranec & party, B.H., H.P., M.A. & R. Rhoades 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 Anthoceros crispulus (Mont.) DouinAnthoceros crispulus (Mont.) Douin1923Mrs. Bayard R. Taylornear Londonville
Mediorhynchus grandis Van Cleave, 19161846P. HarwoodAshland
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Smith, D. W.Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Smilax tamnoides, not of this specimenSmilax tamnoides L.1899Selby, A.D.Red Haw
A photograph of the species Tyto alba, not of this specimenTyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte, 1838)1900Fuller, W. J.Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1902not recordedNo Further Locality Data
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631927not recorded
Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille, 1802)1927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
Trionyx spiniferus Lesueur, 18271927Drumm, J. C.Long Lake, Ashland Co., Ohio
Ascaris Linnaeus, 17581928J. ShillingerJeromesville
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Jerome Fork, within Orange township, near Nankin, Orange township

All 315 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2011

The National Weather Service names England in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 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
May 2018HailEngland-Quarter sized hail was reported near the intersection of U.S. Highway 250 and Interstate 71.
May 2011Flash FloodEngland-Multiple thunderstorms move over central Ohio on the evening of the 25th. A storm moved over Ashland County late on the 25th with rainfall rates over an inch per hour. Numerous roads were flooded and several were closed. Water rescuse had to be conducted along RT 250 and Rt 89 as flood waters from Scotts Run inundated the road.

Every storm recorded in Ashland 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
Treaton1.0 miles11
Jeromesville3.4 miles11
Rowsburg4.6 miles11
Ashland4.6 miles15
Hayesville4.8 miles15
Redhaw5.9 miles12
Spreng6.0 miles11
Nankin6.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064623. 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.