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

Glen Karn, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45332. The Survey maps it on the Spartanburg quadrangle.

Glen Karn within Darke County

Then and now

1916 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Glen Karn, surveyed 1992

Topographic sheet of Glen Karn, surveyed 1916

Compare 1916 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

1 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glen Karn between 2002 and 2002, burning about 1 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
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
2 November 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Darke County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 302 shown

Museums hold 302 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glen Karn between 1905 and 1969: 290 Animalia, 12 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward, Bube, O. E. (Ohmer E.) 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
Calopteryx maculata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)	1942	[Not Stated]	Greenville Creek, 2-6 miles southeast of Union City
Argia fumipennis violacea (Hagen, 1861)	1969	B. Montgomery, L. Alward & P. Alward	Baker's Motel, near Norwick
Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
Etheostoma microperca Jordan & Gilbert, 1888	1905	Clark, C. F. (Clarence F.)	Prairie Outlet, Sec 28 of Neave township, ~0.3 mi NE of Wayne Lakes Park, Neave township
Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, S Harrison Twp
Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, S Harrison Twp
Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Fork Whitewater River tributary, within Harrison township, near New Madison, Harrison township
Clinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, S Harrison Twp
Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 1850	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Fork Whitewater River tributary, within Harrison township, near New Madison, Harrison township
Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Greenville Creek, trib of the Stillwater River, western Greenville Twp, seined 40 yds where water leaves mill
Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Greenville Creek, trib of the Stillwater River, western Greenville Twp, seined 40 yds where water leaves mill
Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, S Harrison Twp

All 302 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glen Karn: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hollinger Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Hollinger Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Darke County

Storms nearby

3 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Glen Karn in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2019: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Glen Karn	$100,000	The tornado initially touched down just inside the Ohio state line in southwest Darke County, about 2 miles south of the village of Hollansburg. Damage began as downed trees along with a barn roof and walls that were lifted and carried about 200 yards downwind on Hollansburg-Richmond Road. There was evidence of a convergent debris pattern and some evidence of back splatter, indicative of a tornado. The tornado continued over open fields until it destroyed another barn, just south of Moore Road, completely removing the roof and roof joists and collapsing exterior walls. There was also siding and awning damage to the home, as well as a large uprooted tree. The damage in this area was consistent with EF1 winds of 90 mph. \|\|The tornado continued to Payne Road, resulting in some roof and siding damage to a barn, more indicative of EF0 damage.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen Karn	$2,000	A couple of power poles were downed.
September 2018	Flood	Glen Karn	-	High water was reported over Moore Road.

Every storm recorded in Darke 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hollansburg	0.9 miles	11
Tampico	2.7 miles	18
Clark	3.6 miles	12
Palestine	3.8 miles	12
Long	4.7 miles	18
New Madison	5.3 miles	9
Wiley (historical)	5.5 miles	11
Baker	5.8 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q49249402

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 1064727. 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.

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.