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

Fallsburg, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Fallsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43822. It stands on Fox Den Knob. The Survey maps it on the Perryton quadrangle.

Fallsburg within Licking County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fallsburg, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Fallsburg, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

16 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fallsburg between 2014 and 2019, burning about 45 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 burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8807
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution9.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12348
25 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12525
9 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15234
22 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11607
1 April 2014Debris and open burning10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 353 shown

Museums hold 353 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fallsburg between 1894 and 1975: 341 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Icteria virens, not of this specimenIcteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Mills, W. C.Mt. Vernon, 1 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dolichonyx oryzivorus, not of this specimenDolichonyx oryzivorus (Linnaeus, 1758)1896Parker, J. B.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Piranga olivacea, not of this specimenPiranga olivacea (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1897Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Polioptila caerulea, not of this specimenPolioptila caerulea (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1897Williamson, E. G.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coccyzus erythropthalmus, not of this specimenCoccyzus erythropthalmus (A.Wilson, 1811)1898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Contopus virens, not of this specimenContopus virens (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Parker, J. P.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melanerpes erythrocephalus, not of this specimenMelanerpes erythrocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Osburn, R. C. (Raymond Carroll)Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
Piranga Vieillot, 18081898Parker, J. D.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Coccyzus americanus, not of this specimenCoccyzus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Mills, W. C.Mt Vernon, 2 mi N of, Knox, Ohio, USA
Podiceps grisegena holboellii Reinhardt, 18531899Parker, J. B.Danville, Knox, Ohio, USA

All 353 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Fallsburg in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$3,000Several trees were downed across a road.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$3,000Trees downed.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindFallsburg$1,000Damage occurred to barn doors and a tree was blown down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 1998Flash FloodFallsburg-Over 8 inches of rain fell across the northeastern part of the county, much of which fell in less than 6 hours. Numerous roads were flooded and closed.
August 2017HailFallsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Frampton2.3 miles10
Tilton Crossroads2.3 miles10
Long Run (historical)2.6 miles11
Rain Rock2.9 miles11
Rocky Fork4.0 miles11
Perryton4.4 miles10
Reform4.6 miles11
Hickman5.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064637. 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.