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Low Gap, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oxford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43832. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle.

Low Gap 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 Low Gap, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Low Gap, 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 Low Gap between 2014 and 2018, burning about 165 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking1

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
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12989
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
22 March 2015Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources501

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 115 shown

Museums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Low Gap between 1923 and 1967: 109 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bolin, F. (Frank), Cusick, A.W., MB Trautman 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 115 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Low Gap: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Newcomerstown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Spring Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wentz Concrete & Supply PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wentz PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working 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
Shady Bend1.7 miles16
Flat Iron Corner1.9 miles16
Isleta2.8 miles16
Orange4.1 miles16
Plainfield5.3 miles16
Stringtown (historical)5.5 miles16
Powell5.7 miles16
Linton Mills5.9 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062860. 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.