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

Mabee Corner, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45656. It stands on Little Bucklick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.

Mabee Corner within Jackson County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mabee Corner, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Mabee Corner, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

25 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mabee Corner between 2006 and 2019, burning about 247 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism3

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
7 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWayne National ForestSUPERIOR 3
24 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined128 acresOhio Department of Natural ResourcesJACKSON FURNACE
9 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 400 shown

Museums hold 400 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mabee Corner between 1899 and 1975: 172 Plantae, 115 Animalia, 108 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bartley, F., Beach, S. (Sam), Bryant, J. 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 Metzgeria furcata (L.) CordaMetzgeria furcata (L.) Corda1925Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Specimen of Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.Polyporus dryadeus (Pers.) Fr.1925G. T. JonesMill Hollow, Vermillion River
Specimen of Polyporus semipileatus PeckPolyporus semipileatus Peck1928Walter PhillipsMill Hollow, Vermillion River
A photograph of the species Ardea herodias, not of this specimenArdea herodias herodias Linnaeus, 17581899Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)near South Webster, Jackson, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Rorippa Scop., not of this specimenRorippa Scop.1905F. Bartley3 mi south of Jackson
unnamed1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Bazzania trilobata, not of this specimenBazzania trilobata (L.) Gray1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Calypogeia trichomanis, not of this specimenCalypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia bicuspidata, not of this specimenCephalozia bicuspidata (L.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Cephalozia curvifolia, not of this specimenCephalozia curvifolia (Dicks.) Dumort.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
Cephalozia media Lindb.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch
A photograph of the species Conocephalum conicum, not of this specimenConocephalum conicum (L.) Underw.1924M. A. TaylorWhite's Gulch

All 400 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mabee Corner: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Comer Quarry and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oak Hill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Oak Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms nearby

4 since 2020

The National Weather Service names Mabee Corner in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMabee Corner$8,000Trees were blown down onto Route 279 and Route 139 near the town of Mabee Corner.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMabee Corner$3,000Multiple trees were blown down in Hamilton Township, taking down power and phone lines.
February 2022FloodMabee Corner$500All lanes of State Route 139 were closed due to high water from Spruce Hollow Road down to State Route 279.
August 2023HailMabee Corner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
McCoy1.1 miles10
Grahamsville3.9 miles10
Horeb5.8 miles10
Monroe5.8 miles10
Petersburg6.1 miles10
Four Mile7.0 miles10
Blackfork Junction7.0 miles11
Banner7.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070828. 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.

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.