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

Fiat, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bucks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43840. It stands on Dividing Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Baltic quadrangle.

Fiat within Tuscarawas County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fiat, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Fiat, surveyed 1911

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

5 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fiat between 2005 and 2015, burning about 10 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1087
10 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources486
28 February 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscarawas County

Specimens collected nearby

10 of 12 shown

Museums hold 12 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fiat between 1925 and 1973: 9 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 10 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. F. Zuercher, Cusick, A.W., FRYKLUND 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 Botrychium dissectum Spreng.Botrychium dissectum Spreng.1967Cusick, A.W.Cemetary on steep slope above Evans Creek; St. Rt. 751 & Twp. Rt. 252, Sect. 19, Adams Twp.
A photograph of the species Parascalops breweri, not of this specimenParascalops breweri (Bachman, 1842)1925not recordedSugarcreek
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus fisheri A.H.Howell, 19251927C. F. ZuercherSugar Creek
A photograph of the species Marmota monax, not of this specimenMarmota monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1931ZUERCHER, C FSUGARCREEK
A photograph of the species Didelphis virginiana, not of this specimenDidelphis virginiana Kerr, 17921932FRYKLUNDSUGARCREEK
A photograph of the species Mephitis mephitis, not of this specimenMephitis mephitis nigra (Peale & Palisot de Beauvois, 1796)1932ZUERCHER, C FSUGARCREEK
A photograph of the species Sciurus niger, not of this specimenSciurus niger rufiventer É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 18031937ZUERCHER, C FSUGARCREEK
A photograph of the species Bovistella radicata, not of this specimenBovistella radicata (Durieu & Mont.) Pat.1942H. N. MoldenkeRogersville
Daedalea quercina (L. ex Fr.)1942H. N. MoldenkeRogersville
Dendroica cerulea (A.Wilson, 1810)1973Pulich, WarrenNewcomerstown, 10 mi E of; Jim Clement's Farm

All 12 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fiat: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. 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
George Meuhlhooffer ProspectIronOccurrence
Domer PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Domer PitClayPast Producer
Dresher PitClayProducer
Fisher PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Troyer PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscarawas County

Storms nearby

2 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Fiat in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2014FloodFiat$1,000Emergency management reported the intersection of State Route 93 and Township Road 88 flooded.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFiat-Storm survey conducted by NWS Pittsburgh found notable tree damage Deibel Road.

Every storm recorded in Tuscarawas 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
Holly (historical)2.7 miles14
Baltic2.7 miles14
Baltic Park Place2.7 miles14
Ragersville3.3 miles14
Stone Creek5.4 miles15
Sugarcreek6.3 miles15
Blackband6.4 miles15
Shanesville6.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062760. 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.

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.