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

Fountain Park, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rush Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43084. The Survey maps it on the North Lewisburg quadrangle.

Fountain Park within Champaign County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fountain Park, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Fountain Park, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

4 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Park between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2002Other causes1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 163 shown

Museums hold 163 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fountain Park between 1902 and 1975: 118 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 17 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Beattie R. K., Brodo, Irwin M. 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 ranunculi Schwein.Aecidium ranunculi Schwein.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.Cintractia junci (Schwein.) Trel.1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Specimen of Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) ArthurFrommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. Tyler
A photograph of the species Phragmidium potentillae, not of this specimenPhragmidium potentillae (Pers.) P.Karst.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Puccinia eatoniae, not of this specimenPuccinia eatoniae Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia minutissima Arthur1902J. H. Schaffner; F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Puccinia myosotidis Tranzschel1902Schaffner, J.H.; Tyler, F.J.Brush Lake
Puccinia nesaeae (W.R.Gerard) Ellis & Everh.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
Stegocintractia junci (Schwein.) M.Piepenbr.1902J. H. Schaffner & F. J. TylerBrush Lake
A photograph of the species Macrosporium catalpae, not of this specimenMacrosporium catalpae Ellis & G.Martin1908Rogers H. C.Mechanicsburg
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1918Wing Seed Co.?Mechanicsburg
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1922Selby A. D.; Selby LinvilleMechanicsburg

All 163 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2019

The National Weather Service names Fountain Park in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 1 flood, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFountain Park$2,000A few small trees were snapped at their trunks. A large tree was also uprooted.
May 2019FloodFountain Park-Several roads were flooded in eastern Champaign County, including parts of U.S. 36, State Route 559, and State Route 161.

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Brush Lake (historical)1.3 miles13
Woodstock1.5 miles13
Crimville (historical)2.8 miles13
Meadows of North Lewisburg3.4 miles13
Middletown3.9 miles13
Cable3.9 miles13
North Lewisburg4.0 miles13
Five Points4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040609. 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.