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

Harriett, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45133. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Spring quadrangle.

Harriett within Highland County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harriett, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Harriett, surveyed 1915

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

12 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Harriett between 2005 and 2020, burning about 28 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
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
24 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15472
5 March 2006Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11965
19 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12505
15 March 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1630
1 March 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Highland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,077 shown

Museums hold 1,077 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harriett between 1876 and 1975: 634 Animalia, 357 Fungi, 81 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 14505, 14519, 14521 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 Aecidium asterum Schwein.Aecidium asterum Schwein.1895F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia podophylli Schwein.Puccinia podophylli Schwein.1895F. L. StevensHighland County
Specimen of Mycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) HafellnerMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
A photograph of the species Cordyceps militaris, not of this specimenCordyceps militaris (L.) Link1876W. B. CookeFort Hill State Memorial
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1910Hopkins, L.S."Caves" Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1910Hopkins, L.S.Careo, Paint Creek
A photograph of the species Diplazium pycnocarpon, not of this specimenDiplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun1910Hopkins, L.S.Caves Paint Cr., E Highland Co
A photograph of the species Pellaea glabella, not of this specimenPellaea glabella Mett. ex Kuhn1910Hopkins, L.S.Cares, Paint Creek, E Highland Co
A photograph of the species Dizygopleura Ulrich, not of this specimenDizygopleura Ulrich & Bassler, 1923 (fossil)1921Bucher & E. Ulrich.5mi W Of Sinking Spring (Thin Cherty Layer In Lower Part Of Bisher Member)
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Cololejeunea biddlecomiae, not of this specimenCololejeunea biddlecomiae (Austin ex Pearson) A.Evans1924M. A. Taylor
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1924M. A. Taylor

All 1,077 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 Harriett: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Main PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Main PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Highland County

Storms nearby

3 since 2014

The National Weather Service names Harriett in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHarriett$10,000A few trees were downed on Harriet Road due to thunderstorm winds. One of the trees fell on a house.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindHarriett$5,000A pole barn roof was blown off.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHarriett$1,000A piece of a roof was blown off an old building on State Route 124 due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Highland 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
Marshall2.2 miles17
North Uniontown2.2 miles16
Turkey2.3 miles16
Gall (historical)2.5 miles16
Berrysville3.7 miles14
Prospect4.1 miles14
South Beach4.3 miles17
Elmville4.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1064800. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.