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

Federal, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Ames Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45711. It stands on Hyde Fork. The Survey maps it on the Amesville quadrangle.

Federal within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Federal, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Federal, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

18 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Federal between 2010 and 2020, burning about 24 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
7 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest329 BRAVO
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7809
6 April 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15648
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.5 acresWayne National ForestEDDIE
30 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National Forest329
23 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 387 shown

Museums hold 387 specimens collected within 10 miles of Federal between 1896 and 1975: 256 Animalia, 89 Plantae, 38 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, A.D. Selby 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 flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
Specimen of Ribes L.Ribes L.1969Dr. Wm. G. Gambill Jr.0.25 miles east of Mill Street Bridge on Harmony Road.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Sporobolus vaginiflorus, not of this specimenSporobolus vaginiflorus (Torr. ex A.Gray) Alph.Wood1898Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum (Sw.) Gould & C.A.Clark1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Scirpus polyphyllus, not of this specimenScirpus polyphyllus Vahl1899Selby, A.D.Palos
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1908A. D. SelbySharpsburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum graminicola, not of this specimenColletotrichum graminicola (Ces.) G.W.Wilson1918Selby A. D.Athens Co.
A photograph of the species Uromyces appendiculatus, not of this specimenUromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger1919L. BonarGlouster
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)East Branch Sunday Creek, within Homer township, near Glouster, Homer township

All 387 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Amesville4.0 miles14
Sharpsburg4.3 miles14
Lathrop4.4 miles14
Jacksonville5.2 miles19
Armadale5.2 miles14
Trimble5.3 miles19
East Millfield5.4 miles19
Redtown5.6 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075835. 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.