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

Glade, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Scioto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45613. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle.

Glade within Jackson County

Then and now

1906 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glade, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Glade, surveyed 1906

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

13 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glade between 2006 and 2017, burning about 17 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 burning9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 March 2007Debris and open burning1.3 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,119 shown

Museums hold 1,119 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glade between 1899 and 1975: 563 Plantae, 409 Animalia, 141 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, A. M. Evans, A.J. Sharp 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 Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimenRorippa Scop.1905F. Bartley3 mi south of Jackson
A photograph of the species Coleosporium solidaginis, not of this specimenColeosporium solidaginis (Schwein.) Thüm.1915Hedgcock G. G.Jackson
A photograph of the species Eriophyes laevis, not of this specimenEriophyes laevis (Nalepa, 1889)1923Miller, A. E. (August E.)Jackson Co., OH, U.S.A.
unnamed1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Bazzania trilobata, not of this specimenBazzania trilobata (L.) Gray1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Calypogeia trichomanis, not of this specimenCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch

All 1,119 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

2 since 2021

The National Weather Service names Glade in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlade$1,000A tree was blown down on Bethel Ridge Road near Big Rock.
May 2024Flash FloodGlade-In Glade, high water rushed over the intersection of Glade Road and Allen Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Petersburg2.6 miles10
Grahamsville5.4 miles10
Big Rock6.1 miles13
Oakland6.1 miles14
Eastburn (historical)6.4 miles13
Sharon6.7 miles14
Four Mile7.7 miles10
McCoy7.9 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064724. 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.