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

Fawcett, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Meigs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45616. It stands on Deer Lick Knob. The Survey maps it on the Lynx quadrangle.

Fawcett within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fawcett, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Fawcett, surveyed 1916

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 1900 county history

4,078 words on this township

The county history of 1900 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Meigs Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Meigs Township - 4,078 words.

Fires nearby

29 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Fawcett between 2004 and 2020, burning about 73 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1

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
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15275
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15274
26 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8725
20 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4534
16 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4386
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14425
11 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources13145

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,478 shown

Museums hold 1,478 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fawcett between 1866 and 1975: 589 Fungi, 539 Animalia, 316 Plantae, 34 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1879A. B. SeymourAdams County
Specimen of Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn.1900W.A. KellermanMineral Springs
Specimen of Puccinia smilacis Schwein.Puccinia smilacis Schwein.1900W.A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Asplenium ruta-muraria, not of this specimenAsplenium ruta-muraria L.1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Pleopeltis michauxiana, not of this specimenPleopeltis michauxiana (Weath.) Hickey & Sprunt1866C. B. Dyer
A photograph of the species Stigmella platani, not of this specimenStigmella platani Fuckel1892Kellerman W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Phyllachora graminis, not of this specimenPhyllachora graminis (Pers.) Fuckel1900Kern W. A.Mineral Springs
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1925Muegel, Harry R.Mineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia cristatella, not of this specimenCladonia cristatella Tuck.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
Cladonia fimbriata (L.) Fr.1925Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 1,478 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Fawcett in 1 storm report between 2014 and 2014: 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 2014HailFawcett$50,000Homes on Cedar Mills Road had siding damage due to the hail.

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Scrub Ridge0.6 miles12
Steam Furnace2.7 miles13
Cedar Mills3.1 miles12
Jacksonville3.4 miles13
Dunkinsville3.6 miles12
Mineral Springs4.2 miles14
Moore (historical)4.9 miles12
Wheat Ridge5.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062758. 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.