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

Grimes, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45144. It stands on Ohio Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grimes within Adams County

Then and now

1919 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 72 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Grimes (historical), surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Grimes (historical), surveyed 1919

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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.

In the county-history sources

2,667 words on this township

A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Old Donald Sherwood, a relative of the wife of ! pioneer on Bush Creek, was known as the "foolish \ other things related of him is that while living in a cabi of Brush Creek, before a settlement was made there, h bear into a cave in the hills, and, Putnam like, with to tered it and shot the bear which weighed over three hun

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

1796, where Noble Grimes, in 1798, laid out the old town of Washington, for several years the seat of justice of Adams County. Here also were the Stephensons, the Bradfords, the Sherards, Faulkners, and many other early pioneer families.

Passage source: A History of Adams County, Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth .., published 1900.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Grimes (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2

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 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Arson/incendiarism100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2020Recreation and ceremony33 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15455
7 March 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2013Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUIKS RUN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 364 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 364 specimens collected within 10 miles of Grimes (historical) between 1923 and 1975: 266 Animalia, 55 Fungi, 43 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Ahles, H.E., Amrine, J. W. (James W.) 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 Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.Hymenochaete tabacina (Sowerby) Lév.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
Specimen of Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.Irpex lacteus (Fr.) Fr.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
Specimen of Mycorrhaphium adustum (Schwein.) Maas Geest.Mycorrhaphium adustum (Schwein.) Maas Geest.1929Fulford, Margaret H.Cedar Run
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1923Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Lynx, Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Agkistrodon contortrix, not of this specimenAgkistrodon contortrix mokasen Palisot de Beauvois, 17991927Watters, G. (George)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alosa chrysochloris, not of this specimenAlosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)1927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
A photograph of the species Asplenium cryptolepis, not of this specimenAsplenium cryptolepis Fernald1927Braun, E. LucyBuzzard's Roost Rock
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011927Watters, G. (George)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Thamnophis sirtalis, not of this specimenThamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1927Walters, G. T. (George T.), Jr.Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus edwardsii (Merrem, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1928Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walters, G.1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notophthalmus viridescens, not of this specimenNotophthalmus viridescens viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)1 mi W of Buena Vista, Green Twp., Adams Co., Ohio

All 364 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grimes (historical): 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fairview Roadcut Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Waggoner Ripple (historical)2.3 miles15
Gemmer2.6 miles15
Wrightsville3.4 miles14
Squirrel Town4.2 miles15
Stout4.2 miles15
Tulip4.3 miles15
Beasley Fork5.8 miles14
Catbird6.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1055845. 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.