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Indian Camp, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43725. It stands on Dry Run. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle.

Indian Camp within Guernsey County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Indian Camp, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Indian Camp, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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.

In the 1911 county history

507 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Knox Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Knox Township - 507 words.

Fires nearby

43 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Indian Camp between 2009 and 2020, burning about 167 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism1
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
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15863
3 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15220
3 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8366
8 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1281
14 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14405
13 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10146
12 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10145
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 273 shown

Museums hold 273 specimens collected within 10 miles of Indian Camp between 1875 and 1975: 132 Fungi, 77 Animalia, 60 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Adams, W.; Adams, S. 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.1922F. O. GroverBlack swamp
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Stereum spadiceum, not of this specimenStereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.1893Holden Wm.College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Pleurotus nidulans, not of this specimenPleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Polystictus versicolor, not of this specimenPolystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Trametes malicola, not of this specimenTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1895Holden Wm.College Hill
unnamed1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill

All 273 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 Indian Camp: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum. 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
Lower Kittanning Under ClayTitanium, Silica, Iron, AluminumOccurrence1850

Every working recorded in Guernsey County

Storms nearby

7 since 2013

The National Weather Service names Indian Camp in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindIndian Camp$5,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindIndian Camp$2,000Department of Highways reported trees down along Route 658.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIndian Camp-Trees down on Mt. Hermon Road and Beeham Run Road near Cambridge.
March 2024HailIndian Camp-no account filed
May 2018HailIndian Camp-no account filed
June 2013HailIndian Camp-no account filed
June 2013HailIndian Camp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guernsey 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
Mantua2.1 miles16
Flat Ridge2.9 miles16
Oldham3.0 miles15
Boden3.3 miles16
College Hill3.7 miles16
Tyner4.1 miles15
Northgate4.2 miles15
Black4.4 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 Q122554958The 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 1048862. 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.

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.