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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.

Leaper within Gallia County

Then and now

1906 to 2002

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Leaper, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Leaper, surveyed 1906

Compare 1906 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

38 since 2006

The 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism6
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
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11987
8 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4206
6 April 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4207
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresWayne National Forest195
29 April 2019Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresWayne National ForestBIDWELL #1
21 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15186

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gallia County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 155 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.Coleosporium carneum (Bosc) H.S.Jacks.1916D. O. Babcocks
A photograph of the species Macrhybopsis storeriana, not of this specimenMacrhybopsis storeriana (Kirtland, 1845)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Moxostoma carinatum, not of this specimenMoxostoma carinatum (Cope, 1870)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallNear Gallipolis, Racoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis atherinoides, not of this specimenNotropis atherinoides Rafinesque, 18181888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis blennius, not of this specimenNotropis blennius (Girard, 1856)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Notropis stramineus, not of this specimenNotropis stramineus (Cope, 1865)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Percina copelandi, not of this specimenPercina copelandi (Jordan, 1877)1888C. Gilbert & J. HenshallRaccoon Island, Ohio River
A photograph of the species Alternaria cucumerina, not of this specimenAlternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) J.A.Elliott1904Sheldon J. L.Mercers Bottom
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Mercers Bottom
A photograph of the species Macrosporium cucumerinum, not of this specimenMacrosporium cucumerinum Ellis & Everh.1904Sheldon John L.Mercers Bottom
A photograph of the species Uromyces lespedezae-procumbentis, not of this specimenUromyces lespedezae-procumbentis (Schwein.) Lagerh.1904Sheldon John L.Ben Lomond
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Post A. LeeGallipolis 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Mercerville1.4 miles14
Moody (historical)2.4 miles14
Angel2.7 miles14
Halley (historical)2.9 miles15
Ruby (historical)3.4 miles14
Hilton (historical)3.5 miles14
Hollis (historical)3.9 miles14
Thivener3.9 miles15

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 Q122549970The 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.