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McZena, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44638. The Survey maps it on the Loudonville quadrangle.

McZena within Ashland County

Then and now

1912 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 82 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of McZena, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of McZena, surveyed 1912

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

7 since 2016

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of McZena between 2016 and 2018, burning about 12 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
21 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7725
29 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources3508
27 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13545
24 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7128
24 February 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7037
18 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6911
28 November 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources9951

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ashland County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 512 shown

Museums hold 512 specimens collected within 10 miles of McZena between 1896 and 1975: 486 Animalia, 26 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C ALLEN, A.E. Daugherty, Auten, M. 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
A photograph of the species Agastache scrophulariifolia, not of this specimenAgastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze1896not recordedLakeville
A photograph of the species Coreopsis tripteris, not of this specimenCoreopsis tripteris L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Decodon verticillatus, not of this specimenDecodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Polygonum coccineum, not of this specimenPolygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Pontederia cordata, not of this specimenPontederia cordata L.1896Wilkinson, E.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Danthonia spicata, not of this specimenDanthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.1897Collector(s): Edwin Lincoln MoseleyVermilion Township
A photograph of the species Agnetina flavescens, not of this specimenAgnetina flavescens (Walsh, 1862)1899R. C. OsburnLoudonville
Neoperla mainensis Banks, 19481899not recordedLoudonville
A photograph of the species Perlinella ephyre, not of this specimenPerlinella ephyre (Newman, 1839)1899R.C. Osburn
Equisetum × ferrissii Clute1908Hopkins, L.S.Lakeville
A photograph of the species Calopogon tuberosus, not of this specimenCalopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus1909Hopkins, L.S.Round Lake
A photograph of the species Carex comosa, not of this specimenCarex comosa Boott1911Hopkins, L.S.Round Lake

All 512 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
Mohicanville3.6 miles13
Lake Fork3.6 miles13
McKay5.6 miles13
Spreng5.9 miles11
Loudonville6.6 miles13
Jeromesville8.0 miles11
Hayesville8.4 miles15
Perrysville9.6 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122598722The 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 1065729. 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.