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

Gall, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brushcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. It stands on Cox Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Spring quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gall within Highland County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gall (historical), surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Gall (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

16 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Gall (historical) between 2005 and 2020, burning about 41 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
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
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources823
7 March 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15472
5 March 2006Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7745

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 819 shown

Museums hold 819 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gall (historical) between 1876 and 1975: 569 Animalia, 178 Fungi, 67 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A W SHARER, A. Braun, A. Cronquist 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 asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
Specimen of Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) HafellnerMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
A photograph of the species Cordyceps militaris, not of this specimenCordyceps militaris (L.) Link1876W. B. CookeFort Hill State Memorial
A photograph of the species Dizygopleura Ulrich, not of this specimenDizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)1921Bucher & E. Ulrich.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Cololejeunea biddlecomiae, not of this specimenCololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Lophocolea heterophylla, not of this specimenLophocolea heterophylla (Schrad.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Reboulia hemisphaerica, not of this specimenReboulia hemisphaerica (L.) Raddi1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Polysporina simplex, not of this specimenPolysporina simplex (Flot.) Vzda1926Muegel, H.R.(?)east of Crooked Creek
Pipistrellus subflavus (F.Cuvier, 1832)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Paint Twp. Dry Cave, Highland Co., Ohio, USA

All 819 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 Gall (historical): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Main PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Highland 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
Turkey1.3 miles16
North Uniontown1.5 miles16
Elmville1.9 miles16
Harriett2.5 miles16
Lincolnville3.2 miles16
Sinking Spring4.1 miles16
Belfast4.3 miles14
Marshall4.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067594. 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.