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Malaga, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Malaga Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43747. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle. It stands 1,319 feet above sea level.

Malaga within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Malaga, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Malaga, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 13 printed 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 near this place

15 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Malaga between 2014 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning8
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15276
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5545
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15819
5 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources725
3 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15095
26 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4846
22 April 2016Naturalunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4607
17 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4814

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected near this place

12 of 322 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 322 specimens collected within 10 miles of Malaga between 1860 and 1975: 314 Animalia, 5 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
Specimen of Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863Bombus affinis Cresson, 18631968L. Macior[Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1860unknownstate route 77, 2 m ENE of Summerfield along Sunfish Creek
unnamed (fossil)1914Collector UnknownWoodfield Quad; Sec 23, Malaga Twp; (Chert From 130ft Above Washington Coal; Girty Loc 3301, See Memo To Henbest)
A photograph of the species Strophitus undulatus, not of this specimenStrophitus undulatus (Say, 1817)1921Ortmann, Arnold EWoodsfield, Little Muskingum River, Cranenest Fork
A photograph of the species Colletotrichum cereale, not of this specimenColletotrichum cereale Manns1922Thompson W. H.Woodsfield
A photograph of the species Catostomus commersonii, not of this specimenCatostomus commersonii (Lacepède, 1803)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Natrix septemvittata, not of this specimenNatrix septemvittata (Say, 1825)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Natrix sipedon, not of this specimenNatrix sipedon sipedon1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Clarington, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Walker, W. H. (W. Harrington)Little Muskingum River tributary, within central Wayne township, near Graysville, Wayne township
A photograph of the species Rana catesbeiana, not of this specimenRana catesbeiana Shaw, 18021929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp.: Little Muskingum River, Monroe Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Washington Twp.: Little Muskingum River, Monroe Co., Ohio

All 322 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Malaga: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Bituminous. 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
Mccort Quarry & MillClay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, BituminousPlant

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malaga in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMalaga$3,000Many trees down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMalaga$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMalaga$1,000A large tree was downed onto Route 800 near Malaga.
June 2021HailMalaga-Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported by the public.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Miltonsburg1.9 miles13
Jerusalem3.0 miles14
Monroefield3.7 miles13
Ozark4.1 miles14
Wilson4.4 miles14
Hope Ridge (historical)4.7 miles14
Kerr5.5 miles13
Beallsville6.0 miles14

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 MalagaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6740968The 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 1076328. 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.