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Hazael, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lebanon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45743. It stands on DeWitt Run. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle.

Hazael within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hazael, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Hazael, surveyed 1907

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.

Fires nearby

28 since 1993

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hazael between 1993 and 2020, burning about 94 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
Debris and open burning15
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
4 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14645
5 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1401
3 May 2015Debris and open burning1.8 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1442
9 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7825
6 April 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBULL RUN
23 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources14585
20 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7929

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 286 shown

Museums hold 286 specimens collected within 10 miles of Hazael between 1905 and 1973: 237 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 18 Plantae, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A, C. H. Jones, Carroll H. D. 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 Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1940Carroll, G.Big Spruce Creek
Specimen of Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) FéePhegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée1945Cooke, V.Ravenswood
Specimen of Diphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) HolubDiphasiastrum digitatum (Dill. ex A.Braun) Holub1964Wistendahl, J.D.Athens. Sportsman Club Road, roadside ravine. Forked Run State Park.
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeRavenswood
A photograph of the species Ascochyta hydrangeae, not of this specimenAscochyta hydrangeae (Ellis & Everh.) Aksel1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Cercospora angustata, not of this specimenCercospora angustata Chupp & Solheim1906Sheldon J. L.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Cercospora ribis, not of this specimenCercospora ribis Earle1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Cyathus stercoreus, not of this specimenCyathus stercoreus (Schwein.) De Toni1906Sheldon J. L.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Cylindrosporium padi, not of this specimenCylindrosporium padi P.Karst.1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood
Entomosporium maculatum Lév.1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1906Sheldon John L.Ravenswood

All 286 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 Hazael: 2 producers. 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
Mcdough PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Weber Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meigs 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
Shade River1.4 miles15
Bald Knobs2.2 miles15
Long Bottom2.6 miles15
Stiversville2.7 miles15
Merritt2.8 miles15
Elden (historical)3.1 miles15
Bashan3.2 miles15
Portland3.6 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122539612The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062810. 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.