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

Lake Lodge, Ohio

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Island Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43944. It stands on Norton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Knoxville quadrangle.

Lake Lodge within Jefferson County

Then and now

1904 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lake Lodge, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lake Lodge, surveyed 1904

Topographic sheets covering this place

23 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

21 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lake Lodge between 2010 and 2020, burning about 38 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Other causes2
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
7 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1781
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources11805
9 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7832
7 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15619
23 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1783

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 582 shown

Museums hold 582 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lake Lodge between 1836 and 1974: 348 Animalia, 211 Plantae, 23 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Doolittle, A. W. Cusick, A.W. Cusick 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 Vitis aestivalis Michx.Vitis aestivalis Michx.1836Jewett
Specimen of Puccinia monardae J.W.BaxterPuccinia monardae J.W.Baxter1896AshcraftNear Middleburg
Specimen of Polygonum erectum L.Polygonum erectum L.1902Kellerman, W.A.Fernwood, Jefferson Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Carex hirsutella, not of this specimenCarex hirsutella Mack.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium acuminatum, not of this specimenDichanthelium acuminatum subsp. fasciculatum (Torr.) Freckmann & Lelong1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium latifolium, not of this specimenDichanthelium latifolium (L.) Harvill1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon, not of this specimenDichanthelium sphaerocarpon (Elliott) Gould1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Elymus hystrix, not of this specimenElymus hystrix L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Galium circaezans, not of this specimenGalium circaezans Michx.1877Guttenberg, G.near Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum mutilum, not of this specimenHypericum mutilum L.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Hypericum punctatum, not of this specimenHypericum punctatum Lam.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville
A photograph of the species Luzula echinata, not of this specimenLuzula echinata (Small) F.J.Herm.1877Mertz, H.N.Steubenville

All 582 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
Richmond1.6 miles17
Swickards Addition3.4 miles24
Canellas Park3.4 miles23
Beechwood3.6 miles23
Brentwood Estates3.7 miles24
Forest View3.7 miles24
Fairfield3.8 miles17
Overlook Hills3.9 miles23

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 Q122546295The 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 1084641. 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.