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

Folsom, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Belfast quadrangle.

Folsom within Highland County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Folsom, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Folsom, surveyed 1917

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.

Fires nearby

9 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Folsom between 2004 and 2020, burning about 18 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15625
4 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15598
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 March 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 February 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15940

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 628 shown

Museums hold 628 specimens collected within 10 miles of Folsom between 1895 and 1973: 550 Animalia, 57 Plantae, 21 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14521, A W SHARER, A. Braun 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 Aecidium asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
Specimen of Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) HafellnerMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
A photograph of the species Dizygopleura Ulrich, not of this specimenDizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)1921Bucher & E. Ulrich.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Cololejeunea biddlecomiae, not of this specimenCololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Reboulia hemisphaerica, not of this specimenReboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Bombus impatiens, not of this specimenBombus impatiens Cresson, 18631926not recorded
A photograph of the species Notropis volucellus, not of this specimenNotropis volucellus volucellus1926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #1 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #4 Highland Co, n/a, township n/a

All 628 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Folsom in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 2 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 2015Thunderstorm WindFolsom$5,000A barn was damaged and several trees were blown down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindFolsom$1,000One tree was knocked down on State Route 247.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Berrysville2.9 miles14
Prospect3.2 miles14
Fairfax3.3 miles14
Belfast3.9 miles14
Sugar Tree Ridge4.0 miles14
Sorg (historical)4.5 miles14
New Market4.9 miles13
North Uniontown5.5 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.

Wikipedia article on FolsomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24898131The 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 1040542. 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.