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

Gould, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pierpont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44082. The Survey maps it on the Leon quadrangle.

Gould within Ashtabula County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Gould, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Gould, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 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

4 since 2020

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Gould between 2020 and 2020, burning about 3 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15835
4 July 2020	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15767
25 April 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15702
21 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15999

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashtabula County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 183 shown

Museums hold 183 specimens collected within 10 miles of Gould between 1872 and 1975: 152 Animalia, 30 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Currutt, D. A. (Dennis A.), Dittrick, J J, E. E. Bogue 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
Hymenostylium curvirostre Mitt.	1872	L. B. Tuckerman
Riccia fluitans L.	1892	E. E. Bogue
Geranium pusillum L.	1893	Goodrich	Ashtabula Co.
Margarinotus faedatus (J.E.LeConte, 1845)	1908	R. Sim	Jefferson
Aix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)	1909	G.H. Williams	East Arivell
Buteo lineatus lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)	1909	J.H. Williams	Ellsville
Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal	1911	Jennings, O.E.	Ashtabula Gorge below Jefferson
Aster divaricatus (Nutt.) Torr. & A.Gray	1911	Jennings, O.E.; Jennings, G.K.; Sim, R.J.	Ashtabula Gorge below Jefferson
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1911	not recorded	Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., OH
Cicindela duodecimguttata Dejean, 1825	1911	R J. Sim	Jefferson
Cyperus bipartitus Torr.	1911	Jennings, O.E.; Jennings, G.K.; Sim, R.J.	Ashtabula Gorge, below Jefferson
Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton	1911	Jennings, O.E.; Jennings, G.K.; Sim, R.J.	Ashtabula Gorge, below Jefferson

All 183 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 Gould: 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
	Frye Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Frye Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Ashtabula 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
Anderson (historical)	0.7 miles	20
Denmark Center	2.4 miles	12
Steamburg	2.4 miles	20
Pierpont	2.9 miles	20
Bulah	3.3 miles	12
North Richmond	3.7 miles	20
South Denmark	4.0 miles	18
Ollins Corners	4.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062788. 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.