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

Middleton Corner, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Caesarscreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45385. The Survey maps it on the Port William quadrangle.

Middleton Corner within Greene County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

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 Middleton Corner, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Middleton Corner, surveyed 1917

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

1 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Middleton Corner between 2009 and 2009, burning about 4 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 burning1

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 February 2009Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 146 shown

Museums hold 146 specimens collected within 10 miles of Middleton Corner between 1878 and 1975: 116 Animalia, 21 Plantae, 8 Fungi, 1 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Bauer, B. G. Berger, Bauer Allen H. 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 Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Mayetiola destructor, not of this specimenMayetiola destructor (Say, 1817)1878not recorded
A photograph of the species Lanius ludovicianus, not of this specimenLanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, 17661896Wright, Frank S.LOCNM: Zenia (near)
A photograph of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, not of this specimenAsplenium rhizophyllum L.1899Young, W.U."On limestone banks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1899Young, W.U."On limestone rocks. [Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Cystopteris bulbifera, not of this specimenCystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.1899Young, W.U."[Banks of the Ohio River, Clifton]
A photograph of the species Dryopteris marginalis, not of this specimenDryopteris marginalis (L.) A.Gray1899Young, W.U.
Calopompilus Ashmead, 19001902D.J. Knull; J.N. Knull
A photograph of the species Woodsia obtusa, not of this specimenWoodsia obtusa (Spreng.) Torr.1908L. S. Hopkins
A photograph of the species Pipilo erythrophthalmus, not of this specimenPipilo erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758)1910Carter, J. B. (James B.)Smith's Creek, Greene, Ohio, USA
Frullania riparia Hampe ex Lehm.1912Henry S. JewettNeff [House] Park
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1918W. T. MabowXenia

All 146 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
Paintersville2.2 miles12
Maple Corner3.1 miles15
Silver Springs3.7 miles14
Gunnerville5.2 miles12
New Jasper5.6 miles14
Pattersons Corner6.2 miles14
Shawnee Hills6.4 miles14
Cornstalk6.6 miles15

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 Q122560836The 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 1062894. 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.