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Green Creek, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43420. The Survey maps it on the Fremont East quadrangle.
Then and now
1901 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Fremont East quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
10 since 2002The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Green Creek between 2002 and 2002, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 July 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 June 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 June 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Ohio State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 815 shownMuseums hold 815 specimens collected within 10 miles of Green Creek between 1865 and 1975: 740 Animalia, 56 Plantae, 19 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, Adams J. M. B., Adams J. M. R. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1880 | Keeler, L.E. | Fremont. |
 | Lepiota morganii (Peck) Sacc. | 1896 | Day | Fremont |
 | Elimia semicarinata (Say, 1829) | 1914 | Anson A. Hinkley | Sandusky River, Fremont, North America |
 | Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) | 1865 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Winous Pt., Bay Twp, Ottawa, Ohio, USA |
 | Anas americana J.F.Gmelin, 1789 | 1880 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
 | Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues, 1862 | 1881 | not recorded | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
 | Carex frankii Kunth | 1889 | H. C. Beardslee | Green Spring. |
 | Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott | 1890 | H. C. Beardslee Sr. | Green Springs |
| Carex haleana Olney | 1890 | H. C. Beardslee Jr. | Green Spring | |
 | Carex hyalinolepis Steud. | 1890 | Collector unknown | Green Spring. |
 | Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1890 | Harry S. Day | Fremont |
 | Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764) | 1891 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
All 815 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalpa Grove | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Great Lakes Village | 2.1 miles | 13 | |
| Erlin | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Fremont | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Shady Acres | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Clyde | 4.3 miles | 16 | |
| Muncie Hollow | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Ballville | 4.4 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062480. 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.