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

Fincastle, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Eagle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45171. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Fincastle within Brown County

Then and now

1918 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fincastle, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Fincastle, surveyed 1918

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fincastle between 2002 and 2020, 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/undetermined4
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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 August 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15209
12 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16065
22 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15204
5 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16059
5 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16057

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 166 shown

Museums hold 166 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fincastle between 1885 and 1974: 101 Animalia, 58 Fungi, 7 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. B. Seymour, A. Braun, Blickle, A.H. 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 Hirneola auricularis (Gray) DonkHirneola auricularis (Gray) Donk1903Blickle, A.H.Brown County, Ohio
Specimen of Puccinia lateripes Berk. & RavenelPuccinia lateripes Berk. & Ravenel1916A. B. Seymour
Specimen of Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)Caloptilia speciosella (Braun, 1939)1929A. Braun[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Valsa ludibunda, not of this specimenValsa ludibunda Sacc.1885Rev. C. H. Demetrio(a) Missouri, (b) Newfield, N. J.
A photograph of the species Equisetum hyemale, not of this specimenEquisetum hyemale L.1897Kreke, Fr. M.Arnheim
A photograph of the species Perenniporia robiniophila, not of this specimenPerenniporia robiniophila (Murrill) Ryvarden1909J. P. Tracy
A photograph of the species Anaptychia palmulata, not of this specimenAnaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak Creek
A photograph of the species Peltigera praetextata, not of this specimenPeltigera praetextata (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Zopf1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Usnea subfloridana, not of this specimenUsnea subfloridana Stirt.1923Braun, E. LucyWhite Oak
A photograph of the species Lobaria pulmonaria, not of this specimenLobaria pulmonaria (L.) Hoffm.1924Braun, E. LucySardinia
A photograph of the species Sticta fuliginosa, not of this specimenSticta fuliginosa (With.) Ach.1924Braun, E. LucySardinia
A photograph of the species Polytrichum ohioense, not of this specimenPolytrichum ohioense Renauld & Cardot1928Fulford, Margaret H.White Oak

All 166 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Fincastle in 1 storm report between 2014 and 2014: 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFincastle$1,000A few trees were downed in the Fincastle area due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Macon2.0 miles10
Five Points2.9 miles11
Sardinia5.1 miles13
Ash Ridge6.2 miles11
Brownstown6.8 miles11
Arnheim7.2 miles11
White Oak8.8 miles13
West Arnheim9.3 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on FincastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133747The 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 1064651. 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.

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.