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

Kellers Court, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43105. The Survey maps it on the Baltimore quadrangle.

Kellers Court within Fairfield County

Then and now

1907 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Kellers Court, surveyed 1984
Topographic sheet of Kellers Court, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 1901 county history

10,676 words on this township

The county history of 1901 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Walnut Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Walnut Township - 10,676 words.

Fires nearby

4 since 2008

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kellers Court between 2008 and 2020, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15800
20 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15762
24 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestBLACKFORK CAR FIRE
1 March 2009Debris and open burning4.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fairfield County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 2,401 shown

Museums hold 2,401 specimens collected within 10 miles of Kellers Court between 1843 and 1975: 1,957 Animalia, 335 Fungi, 101 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Gray; W. S. Sullivant, Albertin, Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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 Cylindrosporium Grev., 1822Cylindrosporium Grev., 18221893unknownLicking Reservoir
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. StevensLancaster
Specimen of Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.Cercospora circumscissa Sacc.1896F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Bryoxiphium norvegicum, not of this specimenBryoxiphium norvegicum (Brid.) Mitt.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Helodium paludosum, not of this specimenHelodium paludosum (Austin) Austin ex Broth.1843Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypnum paludosum, not of this specimenHypnum paludosum (Hedw.) P.Beauv.1843A. Gray; W. S. Sullivantin Cranberry Marsh, northern Ohio
A photograph of the species Phyllogonium norvegicum, not of this specimenPhyllogonium norvegicum Brid.1843Gray, A.; W. S. Sullivantnear Lancaster
A photograph of the species Bruchia flexuosa, not of this specimenBruchia flexuosa (Schwägr.) Müll.Hal.1849C. L. LesquereuxLancaster
A photograph of the species Dicranodontium denudatum, not of this specimenDicranodontium denudatum (Brid.) E.Britton1849C. L. Lesquereux
Aecidium compositarum Mart.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aecidium galiorum Pers.1883W. A. Kellerman
Aleurodiscus candidus (Schwein.) Burt1883W.A. KellermanLancaster

All 2,401 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
Thurston0.3 miles12
Pleasantville2.5 miles12
Baltimore3.2 miles12
New Salem3.7 miles12
Millersport4.0 miles11
Summerland Beach4.1 miles11
Monticello (historical)4.1 miles11
East Millersport4.6 miles11

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 Q122552296The 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 2460913. 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.