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

Ida, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45696. The Survey maps it on the Aid quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ida within Lawrence County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ida (historical), surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Ida (historical), surveyed 1906

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

107 since 1995

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Ida (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Arson/incendiarism27
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15245
9 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWayne National ForestWILGUS
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11367
19 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWayne National ForestNORMAN
1 August 2013Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1661

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 505 shown

Museums hold 505 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ida (historical) between 1840 and 1974: 453 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 24 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartholomew E., Bartholomew, E., Beale J. M. 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 Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.WinterMicrosphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter1892W.A. KellermanSymmes Creek
Specimen of Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Polanisia dodecandra, not of this specimenPolanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.1840Short, C.W.along Ohio River
A photograph of the species Gomphus lividus, not of this specimenGomphus lividus Selys, 18541899[Not Stated]Waterloo
A photograph of the species Cambarus bartonii, not of this specimenCambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)1900not recordedGuyandotte River
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae, not of this specimenGymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.1903Beale J. M.Guyandotte
A photograph of the species Cladosporium carpophilum, not of this specimenCladosporium carpophilum Thüm.1906C.M. Davidson
A photograph of the species Puccinia graminis, not of this specimenPuccinia graminis Pers.1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Puccinia rubigo-vera, not of this specimenPuccinia rubigo-vera var. tritici (Erikss.) Carleton1919Ricker A. J.Aid
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1921George C. WitheyDeering, 11 miles east of
Frommea obtusa (F.Strauss) Arthur1922Bartholomew E.Chesapeake
Frommeella tormentillae (Fuckel) Cummins & Y.Hirats.1922E. BartholomewChesapeake

All 505 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ida (historical): 1 unknown. None of them 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
Brammer Const Co Pit No 1ClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Dobbston0.9 miles15
Suiter1.6 miles15
Willow Wood2.2 miles15
Scottown2.3 miles15
Linnville2.8 miles15
Polkadotte3.0 miles16
Rappsburg3.6 miles15
Cebee4.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1067443. 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.