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

Lakeland, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Seneca Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43780. It stands on Mud Run. The Survey maps it on the Quaker City quadrangle.

Lakeland within Noble 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 Lakeland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lakeland, surveyed 1909

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.

Fires nearby

22 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Lakeland between 2013 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Other causes1
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
20 September 2020Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16076
5 June 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 2015Natural1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1301
5 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16079
4 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources16082
27 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10085

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 93 shown

Museums hold 93 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lakeland between 1860 and 1975: 79 Animalia, 10 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. 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 Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Melissodes bimaculatus, not of this specimenMelissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Populus tremuloides, not of this specimenPopulus tremuloides Michx.1922Davis, H.A.Marion
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio

All 93 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
Mud Run0.4 miles13
Noble Cottage Area0.6 miles13
Sue-Lin Acres1.6 miles12
Kennonsburg1.9 miles13
Lashley2.6 miles13
Mount Ephraim3.6 miles12
Lakeview3.9 miles13
Rose Addition3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048898. 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.