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

Linn, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45613. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle.

Linn within Pike County

Then and now

1906 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Linn, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Linn, surveyed 1906

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.

Fires nearby

56 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Linn between 2006 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 1 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2012Debris and open burning5.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15869
31 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15247
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Arson/incendiarism30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 807 shown

Museums hold 807 specimens collected within 10 miles of Linn between 1889 and 1974: 606 Animalia, 200 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Cronquist, Adams, W.; Adams, S., Allen, E. (Ed) 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
A photograph of the species Asterella tenella, not of this specimenAsterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv.1889C. J. HerrickWaverly
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 18981889not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Agelaius phoeniceus, not of this specimenAgelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ammodramus savannarum, not of this specimenAmmodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Astragalinus Cabanis, not of this specimenAstragalinus Cabanis, 18511898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Baeolophus bicolor, not of this specimenBaeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Butorides virescens, not of this specimenButorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Certhia familiaris, not of this specimenCerthia familiaris americana Bonaparte, 18381898Clayton, W. M.Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ceryle alcyon, not of this specimenCeryle alcyon alcyon Cramp & Simmons, 1977-19941898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Cyanocitta cristata, not of this specimenCyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758)1898not recordedWaverly, Ohio, USA

All 807 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 Linn: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Limerick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms nearby

1 since 2015

The National Weather Service names Linn in 1 storm report between 2015 and 2015: 1 hail. 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
June 2015HailLinn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Cars Run (historical)2.8 miles13
Mount Sinai3.0 miles11
Beaver4.9 miles13
Robbins (historical)5.5 miles13
Beaver Pike Estates6.2 miles13
Omega6.2 miles13
Givens6.7 miles13
Greggs7.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065712. 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.