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

Feed Springs, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44683. It lies in Utterback Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Tippecanoe quadrangle.

Feed Springs within Harrison County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Feed Springs, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Feed Springs, surveyed 1909

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

9 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Feed Springs between 2004 and 2020, burning about 20 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12185
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15476
9 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11206
9 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12628
30 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7487

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 145 shown

Museums hold 145 specimens collected within 10 miles of Feed Springs between 1889 and 1971: 119 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 7 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams J. M. R., Adams J. R. M., Conan J. Taylor 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 Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(3 mi above)
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1891Sterki, VictorDennison(2 mi above)
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
Carex pellita Muhl. ex Willd.1911Sterkialong B.& O. Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville
Carex annectens (E.P.Bicknell) E.P.Bicknell1914Sterkialong B & O Ry, 2 mi NE of Uhrichsville

All 145 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Feed Springs: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Superior Clay Corporation MillClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Tappan2.5 miles14
Station 152.7 miles16
West Shore Cottage Area2.8 miles14
East Shore Cottage Area3.2 miles14
Deersville4.6 miles14
Smithdale (historical)5.2 miles14
Pleasant Valley (historical)5.6 miles14
Tippecanoe5.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122557195The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064645. 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.