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

Morgan Manor, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Westland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43762. It lies in Pleasant Valley. The Survey maps it on the New Concord quadrangle.

Morgan Manor within Guernsey County

Then and now

1911 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 83 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morgan Manor, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Morgan Manor, surveyed 1911

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.

In the 1911 county history

904 words on this township

The county history of 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Westland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Westland Township - 904 words.

Fires nearby

39 since 2007

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Manor between 2007 and 2020, burning about 127 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15863
21 June 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 April 2013Recreation and ceremony75 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13509
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13685
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7926

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guernsey County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 224 shown

Museums hold 224 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morgan Manor between 1875 and 1972: 132 Fungi, 59 Plantae, 29 Animalia, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adams, W., Adams, W.; Adams, S., Aiken 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 Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.Synechoblastus rupestris (F.Desp.) Trevis.1902F.O. GroverBlack Swamp
Specimen of Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.Fomes fraxinophilus (Peck) Sacc.1922F. O. GroverBlack swamp
A photograph of the species Asclepias tuberosa, not of this specimenAsclepias tuberosa L.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Enslenia albida, not of this specimenEnslenia albida Nutt.1875s.c.Fairmont
A photograph of the species Impatiens pallida, not of this specimenImpatiens pallida Nutt.1875Lloyd, Curtis GatesFairmont
A photograph of the species Stereum spadiceum, not of this specimenStereum spadiceum (Pers.) Quél.1893Holden Wm.College Hill
Favolus europaeus Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Lenzites trabeus, not of this specimenLenzites trabeus (Pers.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Pleurotus nidulans, not of this specimenPleurotus nidulans (Pers.) P.Kumm.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Polystictus versicolor, not of this specimenPolystictus versicolor (L.) Fr.1895Holden Wm.College Hill
A photograph of the species Trametes malicola, not of this specimenTrametes malicola Berk. & M.A.Curtis1895Holden Wm.College Hill
unnamed1896Lloyd C. G.College Hill

All 224 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

2 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Morgan Manor: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Westland QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Westland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Guernsey 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
Colonial Heights0.4 miles14
Valley View Village1.4 miles16
Cassellview2.1 miles16
Cassell2.8 miles16
Ridgewood Acres4.2 miles16
College Hill4.4 miles16
Abledell4.7 miles15
Claysville4.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1054643. 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.