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Flat Iron Corner, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43832. It stands on Blue Ridge Run. The Survey maps it on the Fresno quadrangle.

Flat Iron Corner within Coshocton 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 Flat Iron Corner, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Flat Iron Corner, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

16 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Flat Iron Corner between 2005 and 2018, burning about 175 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking1

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9248
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11566
20 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7875
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12989
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 658 shown

Museums hold 658 specimens collected within 10 miles of Flat Iron Corner between 1923 and 1967: 487 Plantae, 109 Animalia, 60 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolin, F. (Frank), Cusick, A.W., H. Moldenke 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 Bulgaria rufa Schwein.Bulgaria rufa Schwein.1942H. MoldenkeCoshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) LloydCalvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd1942H. MoldenkeCoshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
Specimen of Campanulastrum americanum (L.) SmallCampanulastrum americanum (L.) Small1942Harold N. MoldenkeNorth Appalachian Experimental Watershed, near Coshocton.
A photograph of the species Coelioxys sayi, not of this specimenCoelioxys sayi Robertson, 18971923not recorded
Ichneumonidae1923not recorded
A photograph of the species Nematus tibialis, not of this specimenNematus tibialis Newman, 18371923not recorded
A photograph of the species Bombus griseocollis, not of this specimenBombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1924not recorded
A photograph of the species Holopyga ventralis, not of this specimenHolopyga ventralis1924not recorded
Thelia bimaculata Fabricius1924W.V. Balduf
Tiphia J.C.Fabricius, 17751924not recorded
Ascogaster quadridentata Wesmael, 18351925not recorded
Braconidae1925not recorded

All 658 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Flat Iron Corner: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Newcomerstown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Spring Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wentz Concrete & Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wentz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Coshocton 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
Isleta0.9 miles16
Shady Bend0.9 miles16
Low Gap1.9 miles16
Orange2.2 miles16
Powell3.8 miles16
Village Court4.9 miles16
Plainfield5.0 miles16
West Lafayette5.1 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122561684The 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 1062475. 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.