Leaper, Ohio
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45631. It stands on Rocklick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mercerville quadrangle.
Then and now
1906 to 2002The same ground, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1906 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Athalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Ironton quadrangle1:100000
- 2002 USGS Mercerville quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
38 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Leaper between 2006 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 11987 |
| 8 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4206 |
| 6 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4207 |
| 6 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.1 acres | Wayne National Forest | 195 |
| 29 April 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.6 acres | Wayne National Forest | BIDWELL #1 |
| 21 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15186 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 155 shownMuseums hold 155 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leaper between 1888 and 1975: 128 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 7 Fungi, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., C. Gilbert & J. Henshall, C.J. Drake 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks. | 1916 | D. O. Babcocks | |
![]() | Macrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Raccoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Moxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Near Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 1818 | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Raccoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Raccoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Raccoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Percina copelandi (Jordan, 1877) | 1888 | C. Gilbert & J. Henshall | Raccoon Island, Ohio River |
![]() | Alternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott | 1904 | Sheldon J. L. | Mercers Bottom |
| Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst. | 1904 | Sheldon John L. | Mercers Bottom | |
![]() | Macrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh. | 1904 | Sheldon John L. | Mercers Bottom |
![]() | Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh. | 1904 | Sheldon John L. | Ben Lomond |
| Alternaria solani Sorauer | 1905 | Post A. Lee | Gallipolis Ferry |
All 155 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercerville | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Moody (historical) | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Angel | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Halley (historical) | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Ruby (historical) | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hilton (historical) | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Hollis (historical) | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Thivener | 3.9 miles | 15 |
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 Q122549970 | The 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 1076223. 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.























