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

Firemans Park, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Thorn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43076. It stands on Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornville quadrangle.

Firemans Park within Perry County

Then and now

1909 to 1992

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 Firemans Park, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Firemans Park, surveyed 1909

Compare 1909 against another survey:

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.

In the 1883 county history

165,003 words on this township

The county history of 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Thorn Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Thorn Township - 165,003 words.

Fires nearby

1 since 2015

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Firemans Park between 2015 and 2015, burning about 50 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 burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 October 2015	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	3048

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 113 shown

Museums hold 113 specimens collected within 10 miles of Firemans Park between 1900 and 1965: 99 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 6 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Auten, Breakey, David H. Stansbery 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Uromyces scirpi Burrill	1902	Kellerman, W.A.	Buckeye Lake
Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.	1900	Williamson, E.B.	New Salem
Puccinia muhlenbergiae Arthur & Holw.	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Buckeye Lake
Uromyces (Link) Unger, 1833	1902	W. A. Kellerman	Buckeye Lake
Cercosporella cana (Sacc.) Sacc.	1903	Kellerman, W.A.	Buckeye Lake
Absconditella sphagnorum Vzda & Poelt	1910	F. Detmers	Buckeye Lake, Cranberry Island
Sphagnum palustre L.	1910	R. F. Griggs	Buckeye Lake
Sphagnum recurvum P.Beauv.	1910	R. F. Griggs	Buckeye Lake
Orchelimum nigripes Scudder, 1875	1923	Fulton, B.B	Buckeye Lake
Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1925	not recorded	Buckeye Lake
Nilobezzia mallochi Wirth, 1962	1925	not recorded	Buckeye Lake
Probezzia Kieffer, 1906	1925	not recorded	Buckeye Lake

All 113 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Thornport	2.0 miles	14
Thornville	2.4 miles	14
Walser	4.8 miles	12
Bruno	5.6 miles	12
Yost	6.0 miles	12
Ziontown	6.6 miles	11
Glenford	7.2 miles	12
Glass Rock	8.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048735. 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.