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

Lysander, Ohio

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Canaan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45701. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Athens quadrangle.

Lysander within Athens County

Then and now

1903 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Lysander, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Lysander, surveyed 1903

Compare 1903 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

21 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

11 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lysander between 2006 and 2020, burning about 15 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15774
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 March 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWayne National Forest690 POWERLINE
19 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10548
16 March 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWayne National ForestLAKEHILL FIRE
12 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15485

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Athens County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,142 shown

Museums hold 1,142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lysander between 1831 and 1975: 962 Animalia, 134 Plantae, 37 Fungi, 4 Protozoa, 3 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Selby, A. H. Blickle, Auburn E. Brower 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 Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 1813Puccinia flosculosorum Röhl., 18131896F. L. StevensAthens County
Specimen of Ambrosia bidentata Michx.Ambrosia bidentata Michx.1969William G. Gambill Jr.
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 Aristida longespica, not of this specimenAristida longespica var. longespica1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Perlesta Banks, not of this specimenPerlesta Banks, 19061898N. Roberts
A photograph of the species Quercus minor, not of this specimenQuercus minor (Marshall) Sarg.1898Selby, A.D.Pleasanton
A photograph of the species Diospyros virginiana, not of this specimenDiospyros virginiana L.1899A. D. SelbyMarshfield
A photograph of the species Salix humilis, not of this specimenSalix humilis var. tristis (Aiton) Griggs1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Tephrosia virginiana, not of this specimenTephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers.1899Selby, A.D.Marshfield
A photograph of the species Elaphe obsoleta, not of this specimenElaphe obsoleta obsoleta1902Morse, M. (Max)Nelsonville, Athens Co., Ohio

All 1,142 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
Hickory Hills1.0 miles21
Longview Heights2.6 miles21
Carsey Town3.1 miles21
Stringtown3.3 miles14
La Mar Heights3.6 miles21
Canaanville3.8 miles14
Valley View3.9 miles21
Clearview3.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1058833. 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.