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

Moreland Corners, Ohio

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Pataskala City. It lies in ZIP code area 43062. It lies in Coon Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle.

Moreland Corners within Licking County

Then and now

1908 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moreland Corners, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Moreland Corners, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

2 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Moreland Corners between 2009 and 2010, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,029 shown

Museums hold 1,029 specimens collected within 10 miles of Moreland Corners between 1890 and 1975: 859 Animalia, 138 Fungi, 26 Protozoa, 5 Plantae, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. P. M., A. P. Morgan, A. R. Elliott 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 Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.Gibberella saubinetii (Durieu & Mont.) Sacc.1893J.B. EllisGranville
Specimen of Aecidium clematidis DC.Aecidium clematidis DC.1896F.L. StevensGranville
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Caeoma podophyllatum, not of this specimenCaeoma podophyllatum Schwein.1890not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Puccinia seymeriae, not of this specimenPuccinia seymeriae Burrill1890not recordedAlexandria
A photograph of the species Aecidium impatientis, not of this specimenAecidium impatientis Sacc.1893not recordedGranville
A photograph of the species Arcyria denudata, not of this specimenArcyria denudata (L.) Wettst., 18861893Jones, H.L.Granville, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Colaptes auratus, not of this specimenColaptes auratus luteus Bangs, 18981893N. G. BuxtonJohnstown
A photograph of the species Hemitrichia stipitata, not of this specimenHemitrichia stipitata (Massee) T.Macbr., 18991893Morgan, A. P.Granville, O.
A photograph of the species Lachnobolus globosus, not of this specimenLachnobolus globosus (Schwein.) Rostaf., 18751893Jones, H.L.Granville, Ohio.
A photograph of the species Lamproderma carestiae, not of this specimenLamproderma carestiae (Ces. & De Not.) Meyl., 19321893Tight, W. G.Ohio: Granville
Leptostroma Fr.1893not recordedGranville

All 1,029 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moreland Corners: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Abel Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Licking 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
Fursville1.8 miles10
Columbia Center1.9 miles13
Jersey2.3 miles10
Pataskala2.5 miles13
Beechwood Trails2.6 miles10
Ash2.6 miles10
Summit Station3.4 miles16
Panhandle Corners3.6 miles10

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 Q122598959The 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 1061158. 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.