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

Grade, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Mechanic Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44654. It stands on Sand Run Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millersburg quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grade within Holmes County

Then and now

1915 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grade (historical), surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Grade (historical), surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

31 since 2004

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Grade (historical) between 2004 and 2020, burning about 52 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
9 May 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	12567
10 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
6 April 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	4189
27 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
15 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
11 April 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	TR 128
1 April 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 202 shown

Museums hold 202 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grade (historical) between 1890 and 1974: 161 Animalia, 36 Plantae, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C. 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
Uromyces asclepiadis Cooke	1895	W.A. Kellerman	Killbuck
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)	1890	Collector(s): unknown	Millesburg
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Schizophyllum commune Fr.	1901	A. D. Selby	Millersburg
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1906	Alleshouse O. C.	New Bedford
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1906	Alleshonse? O. C.	New Bedford
Hyla versicolor LeConte, 1825	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Lithobates clamitans (Latreille, 1801)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839)	1907	not recorded	No Further Locality Data
Amblema plicata (Say, 1817)	1909	Sterki, Victor	Killbuck

All 202 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

10 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Grade (historical): 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Holmes 241 Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Brothers Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Close Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Fair Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
241 Limestone Plant & Quarry	Clay	Producer
Clark Clay Company	Clay	Past Producer
Clark Clay Company Mine	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Holmes 241 Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Holmes 241 Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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
Saltillo	2.4 miles	16
Mount Union (historical)	3.6 miles	17
Millersburg	3.6 miles	17
Becks Mills	3.9 miles	14
Killbuck	5.2 miles	17
Charm	5.5 miles	16
Berlin	6.2 miles	16
Benton	6.9 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1053489. 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.