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

Firebrick, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It lies in Barnhart Hollow. The Survey maps it on the South Webster quadrangle.

Firebrick within Lawrence County

Then and now

1912 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Firebrick, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Firebrick, surveyed 1912

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

59 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Firebrick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 868 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 were 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
Arson/incendiarism20
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestPORK CHOP FIRE
24 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWayne National ForestBLACKFORK
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5425
24 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestDRY RIDGE FIRE
23 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestCOUCH FIRE
20 June 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestBRIDGE FIRE
17 June 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 39 shown

Museums hold 39 specimens collected within 10 miles of Firebrick between 1898 and 1975: 36 Animalia, 2 Fungi, 1 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. Stein, DUELLMAN CROFT KNOTTS AND WALTERS, E.H. Metzler 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 Planesticus Bonaparte, not of this specimenPlanesticus Bonaparte, 18541898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sayornis phoebe, not of this specimenSayornis phoebe (Latham, 1790)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sphyrapicus varius, not of this specimenSphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)South Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Dendroica castanea, not of this specimenDendroica castanea (A.Wilson, 1810)1899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Sitta canadensis, not of this specimenSitta canadensis Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedSouth Webster, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Illosporium malifoliorum, not of this specimenIllosporium malifoliorum J.Sheld.1909Starcher Bros.Gallia
A photograph of the species Coleosporium carneum, not of this specimenColeosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1916Houser J. S.Gallia
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Hale Creek, within Washington township, near South Webster, Washington township
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Decatur Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio

All 39 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

8 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Firebrick: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Coal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chaney Clay MineClay, CoalProducer
Chaney No 1 Clay MineClay, CoalProducer
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
South Webster PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bear Run Strip MineClayPast Producer
Firebrick Plant Number 3ClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Firebrick Plant Number 3ClayPast Producer
Pear Run Strip MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

1 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Firebrick in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 flood. 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
February 2018FloodFirebrick$1,000Flooding on Hale Creek closed a section of State Route 140.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Blackfork2.4 miles11
Olive Furnace5.4 miles10
Buckhorn6.4 miles13
Buckhorn Furnace7.1 miles13
Moulton (historical)8.4 miles13
Vernon8.8 miles13
Center Station11.1 miles13
Dean (historical)11.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075850. 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.