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.
Then and now
1906 to 2002The 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.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Bidwell quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Patriot quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Patriot quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Patriot quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Patriot quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
56 since 2006The 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 burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15829 |
| 24 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15827 |
| 24 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 24 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 28 June 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wayne National Forest | TOWNHOUSE |
| 27 June 2017 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8665 |
| 7 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wayne National Forest | KENNISON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 149 shownMuseums 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Gomphus lividus Selys, 1854 | 1899 | [Not Stated] | Waterloo |
| unnamed | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Animalia | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
![]() | Arthromacra aenea | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Chrysotus Meigen, 1824 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
![]() | Chrysotus distinctus Van Duzee, 1924 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States |
| Chrysotus obliquus Loew, 1861 | 1900 | none specified | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Liancalus genualis Loew, 1861 | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Meracantha contracta (Palisot de Beauvois, 1812) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798) | 1900 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Evarthrus seximpressus (LeConte, 1846) | 1901 | not recorded | Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, Gallia, Ohio, United States | |
| Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus (Green, 1818) | 1901 | Hine, 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siloam (historical) | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Patriot | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cora | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Cadmus | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| McCormick (historical) | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Wigner (historical) | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Boggs (historical) | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Tynrhos (historical) | 4.3 miles | 12 |
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.















