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

Fursville, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Pataskala City. It lies in ZIP code area 43062. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle.

Fursville within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fursville, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Fursville, surveyed 1908

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

5 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Fursville between 2009 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
6 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15770
28 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15730
9 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 695 shown

Museums hold 695 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fursville between 1890 and 1975: 671 Animalia, 20 Fungi, 4 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott, C.C. Green 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 Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Gibberella saubinetii, not of this specimenGibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1894not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Polyporus biennis, not of this specimenPolyporus biennis (Bull.) Fr.1911Overholts, L. O.West Elkton o around beech stump
A photograph of the species Polyporus giganteus, not of this specimenPolyporus giganteus (Pers.) Fr.1915Leeper, BurttSalem o around beech stump
A photograph of the species Tremellodon gelatinosus, not of this specimenTremellodon gelatinosus (Scop.) Fr.1935G. W. MartinOld Man's Cave State Park
A photograph of the species Dothistroma pini, not of this specimenDothistroma pini Hulbary1936C.C. GreenOld Man's Grove
A photograph of the species Tabanus trimaculatus, not of this specimenTabanus trimaculatus Palisot de Beauvois, 18061946Edw S ThomasAsh Cave
A photograph of the species Thuidium delicatulum, not of this specimenThuidium delicatulum (Hedw.) Schimp.1950L. J. GierWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.S Fk Licking River, Beaver Run on TR 35 about 0.4 mi W of SR 37.
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum (Rafinesque, 1820)1975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) & Lea, C. (Carol)S.Fk.Licking River, Bell Run; Br. on TR 35 about 1.5 mi W of SR 37
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1975Jezerinac, R. (Raymond) et al.S Fk Licking River, Beaver Run on TR 35 about 0.4 mi W of SR 37.

All 695 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fursville: 1 producer. All of them 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
Abel Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Licking 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
Columbia Center1.1 miles13
Moreland Corners1.8 miles10
Summit Station1.9 miles16
Pataskala2.3 miles13
Wagram3.3 miles13
Jersey3.5 miles10
Etna3.7 miles13
Beechwood Trails3.8 miles10

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 Q122557534The 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 1061365. 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.