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

Geneva, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Rush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43107. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle.

Geneva within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Geneva, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Geneva, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

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

23 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Geneva between 2009 and 2020, burning about 96 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 burning	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
25 April 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wayne National Forest	BRASS RING FIRE
22 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15676
20 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7937
2 April 2012	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
10 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 March 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15468
8 March 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	7326

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,363 shown

Museums hold 1,363 specimens collected within 10 miles of Geneva between 1839 and 1975: 810 Animalia, 330 Fungi, 213 Plantae, 5 Unrecorded, 3 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Diderma spumarioides (Fr. & Palmquist) Fr., 1829	1890	Detmers, Freda	Sugar Grove
Coleosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.	1891	M. Craig	Sugar Grove
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1896	F.L. Stevens	Lancaster
Coreopsis discoidea Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Platanthera leucophaea (Nutt.) Lindl.	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Saxifraga sullivantii Torr. & A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Trillium erectum var. declinatum A.Gray	1839	W. S. Sullivant
Ricciocarpos natans (L.) Corda	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Rudbeckia sullivantii C.L.Boynton & Beadle	1840	W. S. Sullivant
Amblystegium serpens var. juratzkanum (Schimp.) Rau & Herv.	1841	not recorded
Hamatocaulis vernicosus (Mitt.) Hedenäs	1841	W. S. Sullivant
Ceratodon purpureus (Hedw.) Brid.	1842	W. S. Sullivant

All 1,363 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bremen	2.8 miles	13
Swartz Mill	3.8 miles	13
Pleasant Hill	4.0 miles	13
North Berne	4.6 miles	13
Horns Mill	6.2 miles	13
Colfax	6.5 miles	13
Sugar Grove	6.6 miles	13
Blue Valley Acres	6.8 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Geneva	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24882699	The 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 1061092. 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.