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

Harriettsville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45745. It stands on Rocky Run. The Survey maps it on the Stafford quadrangle.

Harriettsville within Noble County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Harriettsville, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Harriettsville, surveyed 1903

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

6 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Harriettsville between 2013 and 2020, burning about 84 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
27 April 2020Debris and open burning18 acresWayne National ForestNOBLE COUNTY LINE
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10687
20 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15706
10 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresWayne National ForestLONG RUN
10 March 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 November 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesHARRIETSVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 54 shown

Museums hold 54 specimens collected within 10 miles of Harriettsville between 1853 and 1974: 46 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Albert Hazen Wright, Barnes, R.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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus americanus, not of this specimenAnaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Anaxyrus fowleri, not of this specimenAnaxyrus fowleri (Hinckley, 1882)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Diadophis punctatus, not of this specimenDiadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Graptemys geographica, not of this specimenGraptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817)1853not recordedMarietta
Liochlorophis vernalis (Harlan, 1827)1853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Thamnophis Fitzinger, not of this specimenThamnophis Fitzinger, 18431853not recordedMarietta
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1883Albert Hazen WrightMarietta
A photograph of the species Trillium sessile, not of this specimenTrillium sessile L.1884NoneMacksburg
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum trifolii, not of this specimenColletotrichum trifolii Bain1911Scarberry J. J.MACKSBURG
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Notropis umbratilis, not of this specimenNotropis umbratilis (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Duck Creek, within Ex west Jefferson township, near Harriettsville, Jefferson township

All 54 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Elk2.9 miles14
Road Fork2.9 miles14
Kilmer2.9 miles13
Middleburg4.1 miles13
Flag4.2 miles14
Cliffyville (historical)5.2 miles14
Gem5.2 miles13
Rado (historical)5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1076011. 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.