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

Minnehan Bend, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Twin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45612. It sits by Lookout Point. The Survey maps it on the Morgantown quadrangle.

Minnehan Bend within Ross County

Then and now

1915 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Minnehan Bend, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Minnehan Bend, surveyed 1915

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

49 since 2006

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Minnehan Bend between 2006 and 2018, burning about 110 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5325
24 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5287
20 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5285
8 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 2015Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1209
16 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources4955
1 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ross County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 601 shown

Museums hold 601 specimens collected within 10 miles of Minnehan Bend between 1874 and 1975: 558 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 14 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, J. (John), Bartley, F. (Floyd) & Boecher, H. (Harold), Beattie R. Kent 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 Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.JaegerRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1909Henry S. Jewettnear Sulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.Taxiphyllum geophilum (Austin) M.Fleisch.1909Henry S. JewettSulphur Lick Springs
Specimen of Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.Lecidea coarctata (Turner) Nyl.1914Bruce FinkBainbridge
A photograph of the species Euaesthetus iripennis, not of this specimenEuaesthetus iripennis Casey, 18841874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Myrmedonia loricata, not of this specimenMyrmedonia loricata Casey, 18931874[Not Stated][Not Stated]
A photograph of the species Elanoides forficatus, not of this specimenElanoides forficatus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1898Seip, J. (John)Near Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1901not recordedRoss, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophophanes Kaup, not of this specimenLophophanes Kaup, 18291901Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Quiscalus quiscula, not of this specimenQuiscalus quiscula versicolor Vieillot, 18191905Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick)Waverly, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Parus carolinensis, not of this specimenParus carolinensis Audubon, 18341919Price, H. (Homer)bank of Scioto River, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Acroneuria abnormis, not of this specimenAcroneuria abnormis (Newman, 1838)1925Clarence H. Kennedy
A photograph of the species Acroneuria frisoni, not of this specimenAcroneuria frisoni Stark & Brown, 19911925Clarence H. Kennedy

All 601 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
Harris0.7 miles14
Spargursville1.3 miles14
Nipgen1.4 miles14
Pleasant Grove1.7 miles14
Summithill2.2 miles14
Storms2.4 miles14
Dills4.1 miles14
Knockemstiff4.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122566978The 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 1065036. 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.