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

Irville, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Licking Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43830. It stands on Stump Run. The Survey maps it on the Toboso quadrangle.

Irville within Muskingum County

Then and now

1910 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Irville, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Irville, surveyed 1910

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

34 since 2011

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Irville between 2011 and 2020, burning about 60 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1842
3 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8628
5 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1841
10 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15751
17 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2012Debris and open burning18 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15210
15 May 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 344 shown

Museums hold 344 specimens collected within 10 miles of Irville between 1866 and 1974: 265 Animalia, 58 Plantae, 17 Fungi, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Miller, Andreas, Barbara; Cusick, Allison, Bogue, E.E. 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 Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
Specimen of Plasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) HumphreyPlasmopara cubensis (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Humphrey1898Selby, A.D.Trinway
Specimen of Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932Mesolobus Dunbar & Condra, 1932 (fossil)1916Wilber StoutVanport. Hopewell Township
A photograph of the species Arabis hesperidoides, not of this specimenArabis hesperidoides (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray1866Day, D.F.Dresden
A photograph of the species Poa cuspidata, not of this specimenPoa cuspidata Nutt.1873W. M. CanbyZanesville.
A photograph of the species Cladonia symphycarpa, not of this specimenCladonia symphycarpa (Ehrh. ex Schrad.) Fr.1894Bogue, E.E.Black Hand
A photograph of the species Lysimachia quadriflora, not of this specimenLysimachia quadriflora Sims1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Smilax herbacea, not of this specimenSmilax herbacea L.1894Moseley, E.L.Licking Gorge
A photograph of the species Gyromitra brunnea, not of this specimenGyromitra brunnea Underw.1909Moore S. R.Zanesville
A photograph of the species Davainea Blanchard, not of this specimenDavainea Blanchard, 18911912E. GayJanesville
Hebata esuma (Goding, 1890)1917not recorded
Aglaostigma Kirby, 18821920A.E. Miller

All 344 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Irville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jones PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Jones PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms nearby

5 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Irville in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
November 2020Thunderstorm WindIrville$10,000At Dillon State Park, numerous trees limbs were reported to be blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindIrville-Trees down on Newark road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIrville-Emergency manager reported widespread tree damage off Rt. 146 near Dillon Lake.
May 2014HailIrville-no account filed
June 2011HailIrville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum 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
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.2 miles11
Claypools (historical)2.4 miles11
Woodcrest2.8 miles11
Stonehenge3.0 miles11
Nashport3.0 miles11
Shannon3.2 miles11
Dillon View3.9 miles13
Cottage Hill4.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062826. 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.