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Maysville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 43812. The Survey maps it on the Wills Creek quadrangle.

Maysville within Coshocton County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Maysville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Maysville, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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

4 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Maysville between 2014 and 2017, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
27 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources9065
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7872
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources3967

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 500 shown

Museums hold 500 specimens collected within 10 miles of Maysville between 1903 and 1974: 378 Animalia, 85 Plantae, 33 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Barnes, R.C. 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 Medicago lupulina L.Medicago lupulina L.1942Harold N. Moldenkenear coshocton
Specimen of Cercospora barbareae (Sacc.) ChuppCercospora barbareae (Sacc.) Chupp1943Lawrence J. King; L.O. OverholtsWatershed 130
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lampsilis fasciola, not of this specimenLampsilis fasciola Rafinesque, 18201903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Lasmigona costata, not of this specimenLasmigona costata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ligumia recta, not of this specimenLigumia recta (Lamarck, 1819)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Ortmanniana ligamentina, not of this specimenOrtmanniana ligamentina (Lamarck, 1819)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 500 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
Wills Creek3.2 miles14
Blue Row4.2 miles14
Bacon4.8 miles14
Conesville5.2 miles14
Stringtown (historical)5.6 miles16
Plainfield5.7 miles16
Linton Mills5.8 miles16
Franklin6.0 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 MaysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22133952The 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 1062881. 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.