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

Mohawk Village, Ohio

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43844. It lies in Opossum Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Warsaw quadrangle.

Mohawk Village within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 53 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mohawk Village, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Mohawk Village, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

6 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mohawk Village between 2014 and 2018, burning about 37 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources12005
10 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources766
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources764
14 March 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 663 shown

Museums hold 663 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mohawk Village between 1846 and 1974: 606 Animalia, 29 Fungi, 27 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Albaugh, W. F., Baumgartner, Baumgartner, L. 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 Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.GrayDryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray1898Wetzstein, A.Rich woods, New Bremen.
Specimen of Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)Lampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1903V. SterkiTuscarawas River
Specimen of Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)Pleurobema clava (Lamarck, 1819)1905C. Stein, R. Johnson & J. JenkinsonNewcastle Township, Mohican River, just above its confluence with Kokosing River
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Celastrina ladon, not of this specimenCelastrina ladon (Cramer, 1782)1924Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford Twp., Coshocton Co., OH
A photograph of the species Encoptolophus sordidus, not of this specimenEncoptolophus sordidus (Burmeister, 1838)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Melanoplus differentialis, not of this specimenMelanoplus differentialis (Thomas, 1865)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Polistes fuscatus, not of this specimenPolistes fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Scudderia furcata, not of this specimenScudderia furcata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 18781925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Tettigidea lateralis, not of this specimenTettigidea lateralis parvipennis (Harris, 1841)1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cavallo, Coshocton Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)along Walhonding R., Jefferson Twp., Coshocton Co., Ohio

All 663 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

7 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mohawk Village: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coshocton County QuarriesStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Delaware Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Walhonding Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Walhonding Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Briar Hill QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Coshocton County QuarriesFlagstonePast Producer
Scott QuarryFlagstoneProducer

Every working recorded in Coshocton County

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
Nellie1.0 miles11
Bluff (historical)2.6 miles11
Warsaw Junction3.6 miles11
Warsaw3.9 miles11
Walhonding4.3 miles12
New Princeton4.4 miles10
West Bedford4.5 miles11
Newcastle4.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1043428. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.