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Letart Falls, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Letart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45771. It stands on Letart Falls Bottoms. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle.

Letart Falls within Meigs County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Letart Falls, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Letart Falls, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

31 since 1994

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Letart Falls between 1994 and 2019, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning17
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryGRAHAM STATION
24 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySANDHILL RD.
13 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry3126 ARCHERY CLUB RD.
1 June 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryBOARD
4 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13605
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryLONGDALE ROAD
3 April 1999Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryBRINKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 187 shown

Museums hold 187 specimens collected within 10 miles of Letart Falls between 1844 and 1972: 120 Animalia, 38 Fungi, 25 Plantae, 4 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Balser, G., Bartholomew, E.A.; Wilson, D., Blankenbaker, et al. 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 Phegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) FéePhegopteris hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fée1945Cooke, V.Ravenswood
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. SullivantIn woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium clavariaeforme, not of this specimenGymnosporangium clavariaeforme (Jacq.) DC.1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Leptostroma quercinum, not of this specimenLeptostroma quercinum Lasch1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Lophodermium arundinaceum, not of this specimenLophodermium arundinaceum (Schrad.) Chevall.1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Mycosphaerella fraxinicola, not of this specimenMycosphaerella fraxinicola (Schwein.) House1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
Ophiobolus fulgidus (Cooke & Peck) Sacc.1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Septoria E.M.Fries, not of this specimenSeptoria E.M.Fries, 18191883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Stegophora ulmea, not of this specimenStegophora ulmea (Fr.) Syd. & P.Syd.1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Ustilago nuda, not of this specimenUstilago nuda (C.N.Jensen) Rostr.1883W. A. KellermanCedar Hill
A photograph of the species Opheodrys aestivus, not of this specimenOpheodrys aestivus Linnaeus, 17661885not recordedRipley Landing
A photograph of the species Albugo ipomoeae-panduratae, not of this specimenAlbugo ipomoeae-panduratae (Schwein.) Swingle1905Post, A. L.Millwood

All 187 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Letart Falls: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Apple Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Apple Grove PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Letart Falls PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Letart Falls Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Meigs County

Storms nearby

2 since 2000

The National Weather Service names Letart Falls in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2007: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLetart Falls$25,000A roof was blown off a barn and a greenhouse was damaged.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLetart Falls$1,000A downburst caused downed trees and minor roof damage. An aluminum flag pole was bent in half.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Plants1.7 miles18
East Letart2.3 miles18
Apple Grove3.0 miles19
Ulric3.7 miles19
Antiquity3.9 miles18
Condeville4.2 miles18
Saxon4.9 miles19
Racine5.4 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on Letart FallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133905The 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 1064989. 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.