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

Huntsville, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Saltcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43135. It stands on Pumpkin Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Stoutsville quadrangle.

Huntsville within Pickaway County

Then and now

1914 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Huntsville, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Huntsville, surveyed 1914

Compare 1914 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

9 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Huntsville between 2006 and 2019, burning about 17 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15352
14 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15353
6 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15343
21 April 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWayne National ForestGREEN FIRE
12 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11231
11 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15114
4 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15351

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickaway County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 605 shown

Museums hold 605 specimens collected within 10 miles of Huntsville between 1845 and 1975: 388 Animalia, 136 Fungi, 79 Plantae, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W.; Bartley, F., Andy White., Arden R. Gaufin 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 galii Pers.Aecidium galii Pers.1883Kellerman, W.A.Amanda
Specimen of Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.Caeoma cimicifugatum Schwein.1883W. A. KellermanAmanda
A photograph of the species Symphyotrichum dumosum, not of this specimenSymphyotrichum dumosum (L.) G.L.Nesom1845L. L. Pontius3 mi E of Kingston.
A photograph of the species Bartramia pomiformis, not of this specimenBartramia pomiformis F.Weber & D.Mohr1880W. Kellerman
Anomodon rostratus (Hedw.) Schimp.1882W. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Anomodon viticulosus, not of this specimenAnomodon viticulosus (Hedw.) Hook. & Taylor1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Atrichum undulatum, not of this specimenAtrichum undulatum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Auricularia auricula, not of this specimenAuricularia auricula (L.) Underw.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Bisporella pallescens, not of this specimenBisporella pallescens (Pers.) S.E.Carp. & Korf1882W. A. KellermanAmanda.
A photograph of the species Dicranum scoparium, not of this specimenDicranum scoparium Hedw.1882W. KellermanAmanda
A photograph of the species Entodon seductrix, not of this specimenEntodon seductrix (Hedw.) Müll.Hal.1882W. A. Kellerman
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1882W. A. Kellerman

All 605 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
Tarlton1.2 miles12
Stringtown2.5 miles12
Leistville3.7 miles12
Whisler4.5 miles12
Meade6.2 miles13
Thacher6.3 miles13
Washington Meadows6.9 miles13
Circle Hills7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062822. 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.