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

Moraville, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cadiz Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43907. The Survey maps it on the Jewett quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Moraville within Harrison County

Then and now

1902 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moraville (historical), surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Moraville (historical), surveyed 1902

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

8 since 2013

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Moraville (historical) between 2013 and 2019, burning about 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
7 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15187
14 April 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7880
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10926
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7879
5 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7225
16 March 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7876

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 89 shown

Museums hold 89 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moraville (historical) between 1889 and 1971: 48 Plantae, 36 Animalia, 5 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Andrew R. Moldenke, Buker, W.E., Conan J. Taylor 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 Ulmus americana L.Ulmus americana L.1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
Specimen of Uncinula macrospora PeckUncinula macrospora Peck1908Fink, B.USA. A. P. Morgan Farm near Harrison
A photograph of the species Oxalis stricta, not of this specimenOxalis stricta L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Sinapis arvensis, not of this specimenSinapis arvensis L.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Solanum emulans, not of this specimenSolanum emulans Raf.1889L. Dickerson
A photograph of the species Pseudopeziza medicaginis, not of this specimenPseudopeziza medicaginis (Lib.) Sacc.1908not recordedCadiz
A photograph of the species Lampsilis radiata, not of this specimenLampsilis radiata (Gmelin, 1791)1919Ortmann, Arnold EConotton
Syrphidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Chrosomus erythrogaster, not of this specimenChrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
Cyprinidae1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)Brushy Fork, no more precise locality data, 3.6 miles southwest of Cadiz OH, Cadiz Township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township
A photograph of the species Notropis rubellus, not of this specimenNotropis rubellus (Agassiz, 1850)1929Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Brushy Fork, within southwest Cadiz township, near Holloway, Cadiz township

All 89 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
Enfield (historical)1.4 miles14
Hattonia (historical)2.2 miles14
Stacy (historical)3.3 miles14
Laceyville (historical)3.6 miles14
Cassville4.0 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)4.7 miles14
Cadiz4.7 miles17
Oak Park5.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1052094. 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.