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

Minerton, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Wilkesville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45686. It stands on Karr Run. The Survey maps it on the Mulga quadrangle.

Minerton within Vinton County

Then and now

1905 to 1980

The same ground, surveyed 75 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Minerton, surveyed 1980
Topographic sheet of Minerton, surveyed 1905

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

22 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Minerton between 2007 and 2019, burning about 67 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning10
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 June 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5086
25 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15208
1 June 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15109
22 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vinton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 66 shown

Museums hold 66 specimens collected within 10 miles of Minerton between 1878 and 1972: 38 Plantae, 26 Animalia, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by 'Odell, D., C. F. Reed, C. H. Jones 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 Houstonia caerulea, not of this specimenHoustonia caerulea L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Krigia biflora, not of this specimenKrigia biflora (Walter) S.F.Blake1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Luzula multiflora, not of this specimenLuzula multiflora (Ehrh.) Lej.1878NoneHamden
A photograph of the species Plantago lanceolata, not of this specimenPlantago lanceolata L.1878Guttenberg, G.Hamden
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Esox vermiculatus, not of this specimenEsox vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Raccoon Creek, within Wilkesville township, near Wilkesville, Wilkesville township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Semotilus atromaculatus, not of this specimenSemotilus atromaculatus atromaculatus (Mitchill, 1818)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)Strongs Run, near Vinton/Meigs Coline in Salem township, 2.3 mi S of Wilkesville, Salem township
A photograph of the species Ameiurus melas, not of this specimenAmeiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820)1930MB TrautmanSmall trib of Little Raccoon Creek, NW Milton Twp
A photograph of the species Esox americanus, not of this specimenEsox americanus vermiculatus Lesueur, 18461930MB TrautmanSmall trib of Little Raccoon Creek, NW Milton Twp

All 66 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
Clarion2.0 miles13
Hawks3.2 miles13
Wilkesville4.2 miles12
Radcliff5.3 miles13
Oreton6.7 miles13
Puritan7.8 miles13
Arbaugh8.2 miles12
Vales Mills9.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062901. 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.