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

Monroeville, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Brush Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43945. The Survey maps it on the Salineville quadrangle.

Monroeville within Jefferson County

Then and now

1905 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 89 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Monroeville, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Monroeville, 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

6 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Monroeville between 2005 and 2017, burning about 20 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7808
16 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 March 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7426
28 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources816
23 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources2506
5 November 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources2301

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 202 shown

Museums hold 202 specimens collected within 10 miles of Monroeville between 1890 and 1974: 159 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.W. Cusick, Acker, G., Adams, W. 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 Pleurobema cordatum, not of this specimenPleurobema cordatum (Rafinesque, 1820)1890Dean, G WOhio River, Yellow Creek
Colletotrichum lagenaria (Pass.) Ellis & Halst.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Glomerella rufomaculans, not of this specimenGlomerella rufomaculans (Berk.) Spauld. & H.Schrenk1904Sheldon J. L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Ramularia tulasnei, not of this specimenRamularia tulasnei Sacc.1904Sheldon John L.Arroyo
A photograph of the species Xylaria cubensis, not of this specimenXylaria cubensis (Mont.) Fr.1924Leonard E. C.Indian Lake
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township
Notropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township
A photograph of the species Notropis photogenis, not of this specimenNotropis photogenis (Cope, 1865)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek, within Saline township, near Irondale, Saline township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek tributary, within Saline township, near Wellsville, Saline township
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus meleagris Agassiz, 18541929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Yellow Creek tributary, within Saline township, near Wellsville, Saline township
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)near New Somerset, Saline Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio

All 202 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
Pravo5.4 miles13
Bergholz5.9 miles15
Irondale6.2 miles22
Cream City6.7 miles22
Holt7.5 miles13
Hammondsville7.5 miles22
The Eastern7.6 miles16
Circle Green8.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1057852. 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.