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Louisville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Bratton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45660. The Survey maps it on the Peebles quadrangle.

Louisville within Adams County

Then and now

1916 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Louisville, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet of Louisville, surveyed 1916

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.

In the county-history sources

1,590 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bratton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Bratton Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

26 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Louisville between 2003 and 2018, burning about 103 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 August 2007Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 July 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4387
6 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 691 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 691 specimens collected within 10 miles of Louisville between 1903 and 1975: 328 Fungi, 229 Plantae, 124 Animalia, 10 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Braun, A. J. Sharp, Bartley, F. 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 Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 1931Anchylopera brauni Heinrich, 19311927[Not Stated]Beaver Pond
Specimen of Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) MurrillLaetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill1929Benedict, H.near Fawcett
Specimen of Corticium ermineum BurtCorticium ermineum Burt1930Hoskins, John HobartNear Beaver Pond
Hebata erigeron (DeLong, 1931)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Hebata vitis, not of this specimenHebata vitis (Göthe, 1875)1903not recorded
A photograph of the species Collema fragrans, not of this specimenCollema fragrans (Sm.) Ach.1913Bruce Fink
A photograph of the species Mycobilimbia sabuletorum, not of this specimenMycobilimbia sabuletorum (Schreb.) Hafellner1913Bruce FinkSerpent Mound
A photograph of the species Agave virginica, not of this specimenAgave virginica L.1924Braun, E. LucyTurkey Creek
A photograph of the species Asclepias verticillata, not of this specimenAsclepias verticillata L.1924Braun, E. LucyTurkey Creek
A photograph of the species Baeomyces byssoides, not of this specimenBaeomyces byssoides (L.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.1924Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia amaurocraea, not of this specimenCladonia amaurocraea (Flörke) Schaer.1924Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge
A photograph of the species Cladonia caespiticia, not of this specimenCladonia caespiticia (Pers.) P.Gaertn., B.Mey & Scherb.1924Braun, E. LucyMineral Springs, Oak Ridge

All 691 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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
Marble Furnace2.3 miles13
Louden2.4 miles16
May Hill2.7 miles14
Lawshe3.6 miles13
Tranquility4.2 miles11
Jessup4.3 miles14
Peebles4.3 miles13
Locust Grove4.6 miles13

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 LouisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133922The 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 1062859. 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.