Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Limpytown, Ohio

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44681. The Survey maps it on the Sugarcreek quadrangle.

Limpytown within Holmes County

Then and now

1914 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Limpytown, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Limpytown, surveyed 1914

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 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

2 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Limpytown between 2009 and 2014, burning about 4 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 burning	2

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 March 2014	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 71 shown

Museums hold 71 specimens collected within 10 miles of Limpytown between 1893 and 1974: 61 Animalia, 6 Plantae, 4 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. Morgan, Alleshonse? O. C., Alleshouse O. C. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Deparia acrostichoides (Sw.) M.Kato	1896	Wetzstein, A.	Fryburg
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Ustulina deusta (Hoffm.) Lind	1914	B. Fink
Arachnion album Schwein.	1893	A. P. Morgan
Laestadia bidwellii (Ellis) Viala & Ravaz	1906	Alleshouse O. C.	New Bedford
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1906	Alleshonse? O. C.	New Bedford
Vitis aestivalis Michx.	1914	Drushel, J.A.
Quercus rubra L.	1916	Drushel, J.A.
Sturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)	1922	C.F. Zuercher	Goose Valley
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1924	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, north of
Colinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)	1925	C.F. Zuercher	Walnut Creek, near
Rallus limicola limicola Vieillot, 1819	1925	C.F. Zuercher	Berlin, Plains W of.

All 71 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Limpytown: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Belden Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Domer Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Domer Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Dresher Pit	Clay	Producer
Fisher Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Troyer Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Holmes 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Unionville	0.4 miles	15
Farmerstown	1.0 miles	14
Walnut Creek	2.8 miles	15
Charm	3.6 miles	16
Becks Mills	5.5 miles	14
Berlin	5.9 miles	16
Bunker Hill	6.1 miles	16
Trail	6.2 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 Q122555189

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 1069003. 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.