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

Idaho, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pebble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It stands on Leeth Creek. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle.

Idaho within Pike County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Idaho, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Idaho, surveyed 1915

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

67 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Idaho between 2003 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
28 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9187
22 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5607
9 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15227
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8126

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,725 shown

Museums hold 1,725 specimens collected within 10 miles of Idaho between 1889 and 1975: 1,549 Animalia, 126 Fungi, 45 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, Allen, E. (Ed) 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 compositarum Rabenh.Aecidium compositarum Rabenh.1896F.L. StevensColumbus
Specimen of Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820)1909not recordedScioto River, Piketon
Specimen of Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 18201909not recordedPiketon, Scioto River
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898Clayton, W. M.Piketon, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA

All 1,725 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

19 since 1998

The National Weather Service names Idaho in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2019FloodIdaho1 killed, $5,000The body of a man was found near his vehicle on Ohio Route 124, near the intersection of Ohio Route 772. The vehicle was found almost 700 feet inside signs placed in the roadway marking the road closed. Water inside the vehicle indicated that is had been at least half submerged in water. M58VE.
February 2022FloodIdaho$10,000Portions of State Route 124 were closed due to high water. A water rescue was needed for a stranded driver.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIdaho$10,000A roof was blown off of a trailer.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindIdaho$10,000Numerous trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindIdaho$4,000Several trees were downed.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindIdaho$3,000Numerous trees were knocked down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindIdaho$3,000Trees were downed along McCoy Road.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindIdaho$3,000Numerous trees downed.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindIdaho$1,000A tree was knocked down near the intersection of Ohio Routes 772 and 124.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindIdaho$1,000A tree was downed on Red Bridge Road due to thunderstorm winds.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindIdaho$1,000Two trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodIdaho$1,000A road was closed a half mile from Idaho due to high water.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindIdaho$1,000Intense thunderstorm winds began to pick up the back end of a light pickup truck that the trained spotter was driving.
February 2025FloodIdaho-High water was reported on State Route 124 near State Route 772.
January 2023FloodIdaho-High water was reported along Red Bridge Road.
March 2021FloodIdaho-State Route 124 near Idaho was closed due to high water.
July 2021Flash FloodIdaho-Several roads were closed in the Idaho area due to high water. Rising water forced some evacuations from a few homes.
February 2019FloodIdaho-A road was closed due to high water.
February 2019FloodIdaho-State Route 124 at Idaho was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Stony Ridge (historical)2.4 miles15
Tennyson2.5 miles15
Elm Grove3.1 miles15
Pleasant Valley3.2 miles15
Morgantown4.1 miles14
Buchanan4.4 miles14
Daleyville4.8 miles15
Jasper5.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1041911. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.