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

Harley, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43105. The Survey maps it on the Carroll quadrangle.

Harley within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harley, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Harley, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Liberty township, in the words of 1901.

1901, Liberty Township

Coons And Squirrels

The first season they planted about three acres of corn, but they did not even get a peck of ripe corn. The squirrels visited the cornfield in day-time, and the raccoons in the night. Jacob told me that his father, Abraham, went out with his rifle one morning and killed thirty-eight squirrels ofi" of one tree, and then he was not able to count the remainder on the same tree.

Read the rest of this passage

In the 1901 county history

93,391 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Liberty Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Liberty Township - 93,391 words.

Fires nearby

3 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harley between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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 burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 March 2012Debris and open burning25 acresWayne National ForestSR 522
8 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15923
7 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15924

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,839 shown

Museums hold 1,839 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harley between 1859 and 1975: 1,734 Animalia, 64 Fungi, 40 Plantae, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bales, B. R., Bangham, R. V., Baugham, R. V. (Ralph V.) 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 Kuehneola uredinis (Link) ArthurKuehneola uredinis (Link) Arthur1891Freda DetmersRock Mill
Specimen of Trypethelium virens Tuck.Trypethelium virens Tuck.1898Ernst E. Bogue
A photograph of the species Anas discors, not of this specimenAnas discors Linnaeus, 17661859Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Buckeye Lake "Middle Bank", Fairfield, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedLancaster, Fairfield, Ohio, USA
Erysiphe cichoracearum DC.1882Kellerman W. A.Fairfield Co.
Gnomonia sassafras Ellis & Everh.1883W. A. Kellerman
Leptostroma vulgare Fr.1883W. A. Kellerman
Leptostromataceae1883W. A. Kellermann
A photograph of the species Phyllosticta Pers., not of this specimenPhyllosticta Pers., 18181883W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Septoria E.M.Fries, not of this specimenSeptoria E.M.Fries, 18191883W. A. Kellerman
Septoria polygonorum Desm.1883W. A. Kellerman
Septoria westendorpii Sacc.1883W. A. Kellerman

All 1,839 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Comer QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fairfield 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
Stoudertown1.0 miles12
Havensport3.1 miles12
Jefferson Woods3.2 miles12
Lockville Station3.3 miles12
Lockville3.4 miles12
Carroll3.8 miles12
Woodstream3.8 miles16
Beals4.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064795. 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.