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

Ingham, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Waterloo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45766. It lies in King Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mineral quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ingham within Athens County

Then and now

1904 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Ingham (historical), surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Ingham (historical), surveyed 1904

Compare 1904 against another survey:

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

15 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Ingham (historical) between 2012 and 2020, burning about 31 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15140
4 April 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15141
12 April 2017Debris and open burning2.7 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8105
9 March 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 457 shown

Museums hold 457 specimens collected within 10 miles of Ingham (historical) between 1898 and 1975: 393 Animalia, 35 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, C. C. Green, C.C. Green 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 Mycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.BarrMycosphaerella dearnessii M.E.Barr1936C. C. GreenWaterloo State Forest
Specimen of Potamogeton diversifolius Raf.Potamogeton diversifolius Raf.1974Carl B. HellquistSnowden Recreation Park
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061898N. Roberts
A photograph of the species Diospyros virginiana, not of this specimenDiospyros virginiana L.1899A. D. SelbyMarshfield
A photograph of the species Salix humilis, not of this specimenSalix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Tephrosia virginiana, not of this specimenTephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Chara Linnaeus, not of this specimenChara Linnaeus, 17531911L. S. HopkinsFox Lake
A photograph of the species Neodiprion Rohwer, not of this specimenNeodiprion Rohwer, 19181915not recorded
Diploperla robusta Stark & Gaufin, 19741939W.C. Stehr
Heptageniidae1939W.C. Stehr
Trichoptera1939W.C. Stehr
Acroneuria Pictet, 18411940J. D. Walker

All 457 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
Mineral1.8 miles15
Hocking4.1 miles15
New Mansfield4.1 miles18
New Marshfield4.2 miles18
Five Points4.6 miles18
Carbondale4.6 miles16
Luhrig6.2 miles18
Connett7.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1071117. 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.