Lytton, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Amboy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43515. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle.
Then and now
1911 to 1986The 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 sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1911 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Swanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
9 since 2006The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Lytton between 2006 and 2014, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 23 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 March 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 629 shownMuseums hold 629 specimens collected within 10 miles of Lytton between 1894 and 1975: 614 Animalia, 14 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, K.; Adams, S., DDT, Davis, H.A.; Davis, T. 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Capnodium Mont., 1849 | 1928 | W.M. Burkett | Metamora |
![]() | Pipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1894 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Buteo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Parus atricapillus Linnaeus, 1766 | 1899 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Tamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777) | 1905 | not recorded | Wauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA |
![]() | Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773) | 1924 | Pardon S. Remington | Swanton |
![]() | Platanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer | 1926 | Moseley, E.L. | Engles, S of Swanton |
![]() | Aureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw. | 1927 | Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W. | SE of Brailey |
![]() | Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv. | 1927 | Moseley, E.L. | 0.5 mi E of Brailey |
![]() | Silene noctiflora L. | 1927 | Moseley, E.P. | near Swanton |
![]() | Esox vermiculatus Lesueur, 1846 | 1929 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Swan Creek, near Swanton, ~1.6 mi S of Swanton, Swan Creek township |
All 629 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
3 since 2007The National Weather Service names Lytton in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lytton | $10,000 | A large walnut tree was down along with branches from other nearby trees. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Lytton | - | Penny size hail was reported on the Ohio Turnpike. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Lytton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Ridge | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| Leslie (historical) | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Siney (historical) | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Ai | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Assumption | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Swanton Meadows | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Whiteville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Champion | 4.1 miles | 12 |
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 Lytton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23018013 | The 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 1042857. 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.























