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Layland, Ohio

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44637. It stands on Big Run. The Survey maps it on the Killbuck quadrangle.

Layland within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Layland, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Layland, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 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

8 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Layland between 2005 and 2018, burning about 59 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11025
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 2005Debris and open burning30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources881
18 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 November 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 623 shown

Museums hold 623 specimens collected within 10 miles of Layland between 1846 and 1974: 507 Animalia, 87 Plantae, 28 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albaugh, W. F., Baumgartner, L., Breiding, G. (George) & Fellow, L. (Long) 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 Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Angelica venenosa, not of this specimenAngelica venenosa (Greenway) Fernald1913Hopkins, L.S.Keene
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asstKillbuck Creek, trib of the Walhonding River, Bethlehem Twp
A photograph of the species Chrysemys picta, not of this specimenChrysemys picta marginata Agassiz, 18571929Hine, D. (Dorothy)Warsaw, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, not of this specimenCryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Walhonding R., NW Newcastle Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding River, Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191929MB Trautman & ass't.Walhonding River, trib. of Muskingon River, center of Jefferson Twp.

All 623 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 Layland: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone. 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
E.R.Rice QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Huninger QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

Storms nearby

4 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Layland in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLayland$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down south of Millersville.
July 2013FloodLayland$5,000The Department of Highways reported one lane of SR 60 closed due to high water.
March 2011FloodLayland$2,000Law enforcement reports that State Route 60 remains flooded and closed.
December 2014Thunderstorm WindLayland$1,000Law enforcement reported a tree down.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Blissfield2.5 miles17
Helmick3.4 miles17
Clark3.5 miles17
Metham4.8 miles16
Spring Mountain4.8 miles10
New Princeton6.0 miles10
Warsaw7.3 miles11
White Womans Town (historical)7.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1048911. 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.