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

Esto, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Butler Township. The Survey maps it on the Walhonding quadrangle.

Esto within Knox County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Esto, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Esto, surveyed 1913

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.

In the 1862 county history

9,843 words on this township

The county history of 1862 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Butler Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Butler Township - 9,843 words.

Fires nearby

19 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Esto between 2005 and 2020, burning about 13 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5565
13 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15815
20 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8566
25 June 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15200
5 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 117 shown

Museums hold 117 specimens collected within 10 miles of Esto between 1890 and 1974: 90 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. Jenkinson, Collector unknown, Collector unspecified 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 Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.Puccinia galii (Pers.) Schwein.1896F. L. StevensHayden Falls
A photograph of the species Lampetra aepyptera, not of this specimenLampetra aepyptera (Abbott, 1860)1890Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, within in Knox County OH no other locality info coordinates approximate
A photograph of the species Aesculus hippocastanum, not of this specimenAesculus hippocastanum L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Cornus florida, not of this specimenCornus florida L.1892Collector unknown
A photograph of the species Cypripedium parviflorum, not of this specimenCypripedium parviflorum var. makasin (Farw.) Sheviak1892M. C. FergusonGambier
A photograph of the species Erythronium americanum, not of this specimenErythronium americanum Ker Gawl.1892M. WarnerGambier
A photograph of the species Oxalis violacea, not of this specimenOxalis violacea L.1892Collector unspecified
A photograph of the species Polytrichum commune, not of this specimenPolytrichum commune Hedw.1892not recordedGambier
Rumex acetosella L.1892Collector unspecified
Rumex obtusifolius L.1892M. C. Ferguson
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1897W. A. KellermanBrinkhaven.
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501898Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll), Williamson, E. B. & Parker, J. B.Big Jelloway Creek, Big Jelloway Creek, Knox County, township n/a

All 117 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Esto: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Briar Hill Brinkhaven PitFlagstoneProducer
Briar Hill Martinsburg PitFlagstoneProducer
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Millwood Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Front Royal (historical)3.0 miles12
Zuck3.1 miles12
Hollisters (historical)3.5 miles12
Artanna4.3 miles12
Bladensburg4.4 miles12
Pipesville4.5 miles12
Umbria (historical)5.0 miles12
Millwood5.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062754. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.