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

Fells, Ohio

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cross Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43938. It lies in Polecat Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Steubenville West quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fells within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

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 Fells (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Fells (historical), surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

24 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

7 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fells (historical) between 2003 and 2018, burning about 32 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12885
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4385
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources686
20 March 2011Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 March 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 595 shown

Museums hold 595 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fells (historical) between 1836 and 1974: 378 Animalia, 175 Plantae, 41 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Allison W. Cusick, Arden R. Gaufin 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) LinkPuccinia pimpinellae (F.Strauss) Link1902W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Circus cyaneus, not of this specimenCircus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Mniotilta varia, not of this specimenMniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)1876Collector(s): C. G. NewberryYork Township
A photograph of the species Betula lenta, not of this specimenBetula lenta L.1877Wertz, H.W.Buffalo Creek near Wheeling
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Fagus grandifolia, not of this specimenFagus grandifolia Ehrh.1877Guttenberg, H.G.Wellsburg

All 595 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
Weems1.9 miles18
New Alexandria2.1 miles24
Valley Glen2.1 miles24
Dogtown (historical)2.7 miles24
Fernwood3.0 miles24
Kolmont3.4 miles24
McIntyre3.5 miles18
Smithfield3.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062470. 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.