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

Feightner, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Colerain Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It stands on Brush Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Laurelville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Feightner within Ross County

Then and now

1910 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Feightner (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Feightner (historical), surveyed 1910

Compare 1910 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

6 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Feightner (historical) between 2008 and 2015, burning about 390 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2008Debris and open burning25 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined355 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesPARK CABIN
1 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1326
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1023
31 March 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1325

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 547 shown

Museums hold 547 specimens collected within 10 miles of Feightner (historical) between 1845 and 1975: 480 Animalia, 67 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Spreitzer, ANGEVINE AND SEVER, Andrew J. Penniman 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 Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Coccyzus americanus, not of this specimenCoccyzus americanus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758)1918B.R. Bales
A photograph of the species Acroneuria abnormis, not of this specimenAcroneuria abnormis (Newman, 1838)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria internata, not of this specimenAcroneuria internata (Walker, 1852)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria perplexa, not of this specimenAcroneuria perplexa Frison, 19371925Clarence H. Kennedy
Agnetina capitata (Pictet, 1841)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
Neoperla stewarti Stark & Baumann, 19781925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061925Clarence H. Kennedy
Perlesta decipiens (Walsh, 1862)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Perlesta lagoi, not of this specimenPerlesta lagoi Stark, 19891925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Thomas, J. S. (John S.)N. of Hallsville, Colerain Twp., Ross Co., Ohio

All 547 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
Adelphi3.7 miles15
Hallsville4.8 miles12
Charleston (historical)4.8 miles12
Tucson5.7 miles12
Mooresville8.0 miles12
Jarvis8.1 miles15
Poe Valley (historical)8.2 miles12
Kingston9.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067203. 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.