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Fly, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45767. It lies in Johnson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Matamoras quadrangle.

Fly within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fly, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Fly, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

15 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fly between 1992 and 2019, burning about 16 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 burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
2 May 1993Debris and open burning2.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRT. 2
2 May 1992Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryCHERRY STREET
3 April 1995Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPADEN CITY
13 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySLIDER RUN
1 April 2015Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources651
31 March 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySISTERVILLE
30 March 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Smokingunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 144 shown

Museums hold 144 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fly between 1860 and 1975: 121 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, Albert Wright, Archer, W. A. 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1860unknownWillow Island Pool, r. mi. 128.3, below mouth of Texas Cr.
A photograph of the species Aralia racemosa, not of this specimenAralia racemosa L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Astragalus canadensis, not of this specimenAstragalus canadensis L.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Sericocarpus asteroides, not of this specimenSericocarpus asteroides (L.) Britton, Stern & Poggenb.1877Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Asplenium platyneuron, not of this specimenAsplenium platyneuron (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1878Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
A photograph of the species Aureolaria virginica, not of this specimenAureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell1879Guttenberg, G.New Martinsville
Peronospora manshurica (Naumov) Syd.1928Archer, W. A.Greenbrier
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Ohio River tributary, within north of Fly in Jackson township, near Sistersville, Jackson township
A photograph of the species Micropterus punctulatus, not of this specimenMicropterus punctulatus (Rafinesque, 1819)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, within south Washington township, near Brownsville, Washington township
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River, Ex north Ludlow township, ~5.1 mi W of Brownsville, Ludlow township

All 144 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 Fly: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. 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
Mcdonough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Plant Number 3 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Virginian DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms nearby

2 since 2004

The National Weather Service names Fly in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 1 hail, 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFly$500The public reported trees down on Route 7.
August 2004HailFly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Stringtown (historical)0.4 miles18
Centerview (historical)2.0 miles18
Wittens2.3 miles19
Wahanaker3.2 miles18
Trail Run (historical)4.2 miles18
Brownsville4.4 miles18
Lodi4.8 miles19
Alexis5.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075863. 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.