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

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.

Lytton within Fulton County

Then and now

1911 to 1986

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 Lytton, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Lytton, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

9 since 2006

The 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 burning6
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
14 May 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2013Debris and open burning1.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2009Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 629 shown

Museums 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Capnodium Mont., 1849Capnodium Mont., 18491928W.M. BurkettMetamora
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1894Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Wauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lineatus, not of this specimenButeo lineatus (Gmelin, 1788)1897Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Parus atricapillus, not of this specimenParus atricapillus Linnaeus, 17661899not recordedWauseon, Fulton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamias striatus, not of this specimenTamias striatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, not of this specimenTamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)1905not recordedWauseon, Fulton Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Speyeria idalia, not of this specimenSpeyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)1924Pardon S. RemingtonSwanton
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1926Moseley, E.L.Engles, S of Swanton
A photograph of the species Aureolaria pedicularia, not of this specimenAureolaria pedicularia var. ambigens (Fernald) Farw.1927Wherry, E.T.; Pennell, F.W.SE of Brailey
A photograph of the species Calamagrostis canadensis, not of this specimenCalamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) P.Beauv.1927Moseley, E.L.0.5 mi E of Brailey
A photograph of the species Silene noctiflora, not of this specimenSilene noctiflora L.1927Moseley, E.P.near Swanton
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, 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 2007

The 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLytton$10,000A large walnut tree was down along with branches from other nearby trees.
March 2007HailLytton-Penny size hail was reported on the Ohio Turnpike.
April 2020HailLytton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Dutch Ridge1.0 miles12
Leslie (historical)2.0 miles12
Siney (historical)2.2 miles12
Ai2.3 miles12
Assumption2.5 miles12
Swanton Meadows2.6 miles11
Whiteville3.9 miles12
Champion4.1 miles12

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 LyttonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23018013The 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.