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Miley Crossroads, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ripley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44611. The Survey maps it on the Glenmont quadrangle.
Then and now
1912 to 1994The 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.
Compare 1912 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Loudonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Glenmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Glenmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Marion quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Mansfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
19 since 2004The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Miley Crossroads between 2004 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 13 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4331 |
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4327 |
| 12 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 14825 |
| 10 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15477 |
| 4 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 10825 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 265 shownMuseums hold 265 specimens collected within 10 miles of Miley Crossroads between 1896 and 1975: 245 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C F WALKER, C.F. Zuercher, Crunkilton, R. (Ron) & Crunkilton, L. (Lila) 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Taphrina deformans (Berk.) Tul. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
 | Adiantum pedatum L. | 1933 | McCalmont, C. | Millersburg. |
 | Agastache scrophulariifolia (Willd.) Kuntze | 1896 | not recorded | Lakeville |
 | Coreopsis tripteris L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Decodon verticillatus (L.) Elliott | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Polygonum coccineum f. terrestre (Willd.) Stanford | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Pontederia cordata L. | 1896 | Wilkinson, E. | Lakeville |
 | Equisetum × ferrissii Clute | 1908 | Hopkins, L.S. | Lakeville |
 | Platanthera lacera (Michx.) G.Don | 1909 | Hopkins, L.S. | Odell's Lake |
 | Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl | 1911 | Hopkins, L.S. | Lakeville |
 | Carex comosa Boott | 1913 | Hopkins, L.S. | Lakeville |
| Quercus imbricaria Michx. | 1913 | Hopkins, L.S. | Lakeville |
All 265 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Lakeland Beach | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Big Prairie | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Lakeville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Paint Valley | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| New Wheeling (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Welcome | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Spellacy | 6.9 miles | 13 |
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 Q122593954 | The 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 1062898. 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.