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Fort Fizzle, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44637. The Survey maps it on the Spring Mountain quadrangle.

Fort Fizzle within Holmes County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fort Fizzle, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Fort Fizzle, surveyed 1913

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

14 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Fizzle between 2011 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
1 August 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2968
8 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7934
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2015Debris and open burning15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2966
10 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9948
1 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7291

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 242 shown

Museums hold 242 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fort Fizzle between 1895 and 1974: 228 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C.F. Zuercher, Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila) 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 Uromyces asclepiadis CookeUromyces asclepiadis Cooke1895W.A. KellermanKillbuck
Specimen of Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul.1897F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Adiantum pedatum L.Adiantum pedatum L.1933McCalmont, C.Millersburg.
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1897W. A. KellermanBrinkhaven.
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lampsilis cardium, not of this specimenLampsilis cardium Rafinesque, 18201909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck
A photograph of the species Ptychobranchus fasciolaris, not of this specimenPtychobranchus fasciolaris (Rafinesque, 1820)1909Sterki, VictorKillbuck

All 242 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

5 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Fizzle: 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Stone. 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
Briar Hill Plant & QuarryStonePlant
Glenmont Quarry No. 24Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Holmes County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Huninger QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Quarry Number 31FlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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
Glenmont1.9 miles12
Stillwell2.2 miles10
Baddow Pass (historical)2.9 miles12
Welcome5.3 miles12
Killbuck5.7 miles17
Nashville7.2 miles12
Paint Valley7.9 miles12
New Wheeling (historical)8.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062770. 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.