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Linton Mills, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Linton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43749. It stands on Roahrig Hill. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Linton Mills within Coshocton County

Then and now

1909 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Linton Mills, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Linton Mills, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

10 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Linton Mills between 2014 and 2020, burning about 162 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5

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
4 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9248
26 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources8905
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11566
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7874
15 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7875
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7869

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 218 shown

Museums hold 218 specimens collected within 10 miles of Linton Mills between 1923 and 1973: 165 Animalia, 49 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Buker, W.E., Cavender, T. M. (Ted M.), Conan J. Taylor 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 Coelioxys sayi, not of this specimenCoelioxys sayi Robertson, 18971923not recorded
Ichneumonidae1923not recorded
A photograph of the species Nematus tibialis, not of this specimenNematus tibialis Newman, 18371923not recorded
A photograph of the species Bombus griseocollis, not of this specimenBombus griseocollis (De Geer, 1773)1924not recorded
A photograph of the species Holopyga ventralis, not of this specimenHolopyga ventralis1924not recorded
Thelia bimaculata Fabricius1924W.V. Balduf
Tiphia J.C.Fabricius, 17751924not recorded
Ascogaster quadridentata Wesmael, 18351925not recorded
Braconidae1925not recorded
Pteromalidae1928W.V. Balduf
unnamed1929not recorded
Myzinum maculatum (Fabricius, 1793)1929not recorded

All 218 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

1 since 2011

The National Weather Service names Linton Mills in 1 storm report between 2011 and 2011: 1 flood. 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
February 2011FloodLinton Mills$75,000Emergency management reported flooding countywide as most creeks out of their banks and flooding roadways.

Every storm recorded in Coshocton 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
Stringtown (historical)1.1 miles16
Plainfield2.8 miles16
Bacon5.4 miles14
Maysville5.8 miles14
Low Gap5.9 miles16
Flat Iron Corner6.5 miles16
Isleta6.7 miles16
Shady Bend7.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065004. 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.

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.