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

Gage, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45658. It stands on Granny Branch. The Survey maps it on the Patriot quadrangle.

Gage within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gage, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Gage, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

56 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Gage between 2006 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism6
Other causes1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15829
24 September 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15827
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWayne National ForestTOWNHOUSE
27 June 2017Other causes1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8665
7 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresWayne National ForestKENNISON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 149 shown

Museums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gage between 1899 and 1974: 120 Animalia, 16 Plantae, 11 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. M. Evans, Babcocks D. O., Bartley, F. 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
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
unnamed1900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Animalia1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Arthromacra aenea, not of this specimenArthromacra aenea1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus Meigen, not of this specimenChrysotus Meigen, 18241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
A photograph of the species Chrysotus distinctus, not of this specimenChrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 19241900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 18611900none specifiedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Liancalus genualis Loew, 18611900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Evarthrus seximpressus (LeConte, 1846)1901not recordedVinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818)1901Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Morse, M. (Max)Vinton, Gallia Co., Ohio

All 149 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Siloam (historical)1.5 miles13
Patriot1.7 miles12
Cora2.5 miles13
Cadmus2.9 miles12
McCormick (historical)3.3 miles13
Wigner (historical)3.5 miles13
Boggs (historical)3.8 miles14
Tynrhos (historical)4.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1075890. 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.