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

Holt, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43932. It stands on Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Salineville quadrangle.

Holt within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Holt, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Holt, surveyed 1905

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

25 since 2002

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Holt between 2002 and 2020, burning about 93 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
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
23 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11805
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7832
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7808
6 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15619
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4129
14 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8205
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2530

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 548 shown

Museums hold 548 specimens collected within 10 miles of Holt between 1878 and 1974: 409 Animalia, 109 Plantae, 30 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Catocala epione Drury, 1773Catocala epione Drury, 17731941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
Specimen of Catocala residua Grote, 1874Catocala residua Grote, 18741941not recordedRichmond, Jefferson State Park
A photograph of the species Anisothecium varium, not of this specimenAnisothecium varium (Hedw.) Mitt.1878J. D. SmithNewburgh
A photograph of the species Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
A photograph of the species Icterus galbula, not of this specimenIcterus galbula galbula (Linnaeus, 1758)1898E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Vireo olivaceus, not of this specimenVireo olivaceus olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1899E.A. DoolittleRichmond
A photograph of the species Tyrannus tyrannus, not of this specimenTyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus, 1758)1900A. DoolittleRichmond
Mollisia dehnii (Rabenh.) P.Karst.1902W. A. Kellerman
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo

All 548 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Holt: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Dando MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Dando MineClayPast Producer
Irondale MineClayProducer
Irondale Works MineClayPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
New Somerset2.4 miles22
Osage3.0 miles23
Shane3.7 miles17
Hammondsville3.9 miles22
Knoxville4.0 miles23
Cream City4.0 miles22
Pravo4.3 miles13
Irondale4.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048848. 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.