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Leesville Lake Park, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Orange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44695. It stands on North Fork McGuire Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bowerston quadrangle.

Leesville Lake Park within Carroll County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Leesville Lake Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Leesville Lake Park, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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.

In the 1866 county history

847 words on this township

The county history of 1866 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Orange Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Orange Township - 847 words.

Fires nearby

14 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Leesville Lake Park between 2005 and 2020, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
1 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4986
3 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14525
7 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 April 2005Debris and open burning3.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 133 shown

Museums hold 133 specimens collected within 10 miles of Leesville Lake Park between 1905 and 1975: 123 Animalia, 8 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., Bolin, F. (Frank), Bolin, F. A. (Franklin A.) 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 spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) WattDryopteris spinulosa (O.F.Müll.) Watt1970Jones, G.T.moist wooded river valley west of Leesville
A photograph of the species Amblema plicata, not of this specimenAmblema plicata (Say, 1817)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Cardamine bulbosa, not of this specimenCardamine bulbosa (Schreb. ex Muhl.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1905Ortmann, A.E.Bowerston
A photograph of the species Pyganodon grandis, not of this specimenPyganodon grandis (Say, 1829)1905Ortmann, Arnold ENew Hagerstown
A photograph of the species Pleurotus ulmarius, not of this specimenPleurotus ulmarius (Bull.) P.Kumm.1927not recordedBowerston
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek, within Warren township, near Roswell, Warren township
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek tributary, within Orange township, near Leesville, Orange township
A photograph of the species Clinostomus elongatus, not of this specimenClinostomus elongatus (Kirtland, 1840)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek tributary, at Sherrodsville, ~0.4 mi SW of Sherrodsville, Orange township
A photograph of the species Cyprinella spiloptera, not of this specimenCyprinella spiloptera (Cope, 1867)1929MB Trautman & asstConotton Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River at jct of Conotton & McGuire Creeks, Orange Twp
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Conotton Creek, within Warren township, near Roswell, Warren township
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929MB Trautman & asstConotton Creek, trib of the Tuscarawas River at jct of Conotton & McGuire Creeks, Orange Twp
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Indian Fork, within Monroe township, near Dellroy, Monroe township

All 133 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 Leesville Lake Park: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Conotton Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Conotton Valley QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll 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
Leesville Hills0.6 miles13
Lakeshore Park0.9 miles13
New Hagerstown1.0 miles13
Rock Canyon Park1.0 miles13
Leesville1.6 miles13
Thornhill1.8 miles13
Glens Cottage Area2.2 miles13
Leesville Glens2.2 miles13

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 Q122544513The 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 1052481. 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.