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

Momeneetown, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oregon City. It lies in ZIP code area 43616. The Survey maps it on the Oregon quadrangle.

Momeneetown within Lucas County

Then and now

1900 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Momeneetown, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Momeneetown, surveyed 1900

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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

5 since 2019

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Momeneetown between 2019 and 2020, burning about 2 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 burning4
Arson/incendiarism1

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 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15522
9 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15919
7 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15891
14 October 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15852
10 October 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15321

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,525 shown

Museums hold 1,525 specimens collected within 10 miles of Momeneetown between 1863 and 1975: 1,313 Animalia, 157 Fungi, 44 Plantae, 6 Protozoa, 3 Chromista, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by AS Hazzard & party, Aborn, R., Al Szuch 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 Erysiphe polygoni DC.Erysiphe polygoni DC.1900F.D. KelseyToledo
Specimen of Lupinus perennis L.Lupinus perennis L.1900Kelsey, F.D.America borealis: Toledo, Ohio in foliis Lupini perennis
A photograph of the species Lepachys pinnata, not of this specimenLepachys pinnata (Vent.) Torr. & A.Gray1863Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Nelumbium luteum, not of this specimenNelumbium luteum Willd.1866Day, D.F.Toledo
A photograph of the species Asio flammeus, not of this specimenAsio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)1885Collector(s): J. A. SingleyToledo
A photograph of the species Euphorbia commutata, not of this specimenEuphorbia commutata Engelm. ex A.Gray1889J. Y. PennypackerToledo
A photograph of the species Moxostoma macrolepidotum, not of this specimenMoxostoma macrolepidotum (Lesueur, 1817)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Percina caprodes, not of this specimenPercina caprodes (Rafinesque, 1818)1892C. RutterCedar Point, Toledo, Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans blanchardi Harper, 19471893not recordedToledo, Maumee River
A photograph of the species Apalone spinifera, not of this specimenApalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin
A photograph of the species Aplodinotus grunniens, not of this specimenAplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 18191893U.S. Fish CommissionTOLEDO, OHIO
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)1893not recordedMaumee River Basin

All 1,525 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
Booth1.5 miles18
South Shore Park1.9 miles18
Immergrun2.1 miles18
Niles Beach2.8 miles14
Harbor View3.0 miles18
Curtice3.6 miles16
Ironville3.7 miles18
Oregon4.2 miles18

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 Q122560055The 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 1065044. 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.