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

Lottridge, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Carthage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45735. The Survey maps it on the Alfred quadrangle.

Lottridge within Athens County

Then and now

1907 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lottridge, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Lottridge, surveyed 1907

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

21 since 2010

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Lottridge between 2010 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1861
30 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15150
9 April 2019Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15139
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15687
15 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15462

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 179 shown

Museums hold 179 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lottridge between 1831 and 1974: 158 Animalia, 19 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. C. Kinsey, Beckman, J.M., C. H. Jones 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 Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.Daedaleopsis confragosa (Bolton) J.Schröt.1934Beckman, J.M.Middle fork of Shade River, "Fossil Creek"
Specimen of Penthorum sedoides L.Penthorum sedoides L.1970Wm. G. Gambill Jr.Southeast of Athens.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Tridens flavus, not of this specimenTridens flavus (L.) Hitchc.1896Selby, A.D.Caananville
A photograph of the species Cynips Linnaeus, not of this specimenCynips Linnaeus, 17581928A. C. KinseyCoolville
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Eurycea bislineata, not of this specimenEurycea bislineata (Green, 1818)1931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Gyrinophilus porphyriticus, not of this specimenGyrinophilus porphyriticus (Green, 1827)1931Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011931Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Troy Twp., Athens Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771932Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Shurrager, P.Hocking River, near Guysville, ~2.2 mi SW of Stewart, Rome township
A photograph of the species Solidago flexicaulis, not of this specimenSolidago flexicaulis L.1935C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Ammocrypta pellucida, not of this specimenAmmocrypta pellucida (Putnam, 1863)1939Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Hocking River, dst SR 7/US 50, ~0.5 mi NE of Coolville OH, Troy Township

All 179 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2010

The National Weather Service names Lottridge in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
June 2021Flash FloodLottridge$2,000Barnhart Road was flooded for a brief time.
April 2018Flash FloodLottridge$1,000State Route 329 was closed due to flooding in the Trimble Area. Also, near Torch, County Road 62 flooded due to water from the Little Hocking River.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindLottridge$1,000Multiple trees were blown down along County Route 53.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLottridge-Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Athens 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
Vanderhoof2.6 miles14
Hull4.2 miles14
Garden4.4 miles13
Anthony4.5 miles13
Guysville4.5 miles14
Frost5.0 miles13
Cole5.0 miles14
Coolville5.3 miles14

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 LottridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18350472The 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 1048935. 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.