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

Germany, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45613. It lies in Brigner Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Waverly South quadrangle.

Germany within Pike County

Then and now

1906 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Germany, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Germany, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 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

52 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Germany between 2003 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2012Debris and open burning5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13748
1 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15212
7 May 2014Debris and open burning20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,082 shown

Museums hold 1,082 specimens collected within 10 miles of Germany between 1889 and 1975: 1,050 Animalia, 29 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed), B. W. Evermann 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 Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
Specimen of Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1938R. RhoadesRoadside Pool Near Head Of Lake White, Pee Pee Township
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Hybognathus nuchalis, not of this specimenHybognathus nuchalis Agassiz, 18551894Bean & B. EvermannScioto Creek, Coopersville, New York
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181894B. W. EvermannCooperville; Scioto Cr
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,082 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

5 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Germany in 5 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGermany$50,000Several houses sustained roof damage. Numerous trees were downed and several barns were destroyed. A school bus was heavily damaged by flying debris.
July 2016Flash FloodGermany$5,000Part of Montgomery Road was washed out near Dutch Run.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGermany$3,000Numerous trees were downed across Pike County, including several along Red Hollow Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGermany$2,000A tree fell onto a power line near the intersection of Germany Road and Owl Creek Road.
July 2016Flash FloodGermany-Two children had to be rescued from a home due to rapidly rising water approaching the house.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Bobo2.5 miles13
Robbins (historical)2.8 miles13
Beaver Pike Estates3.2 miles13
Givens3.6 miles13
Stockdale4.1 miles11
Shyville4.3 miles13
Beaver4.7 miles13
Zahns Corners5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1040826. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.