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

Morgan Run, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43845. It stands on Morgan Run. The Survey maps it on the Coshocton quadrangle.

Morgan Run within Coshocton County

Then and now

1913 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 81 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 Run, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Morgan Run, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 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

22 since 2005

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Morgan Run between 2005 and 2020, burning about 48 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7872
6 April 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
23 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15666
23 April 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11566
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2014Debris and open burning8.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coshocton County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,350 shown

Museums hold 1,350 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morgan Run between 1846 and 1974: 636 Plantae, 584 Animalia, 120 Fungi, 4 Bacteria, 4 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. Spreitzer, Albaugh, W. F. 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 Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.Amanita flavorubescens G.F.Atk.1942ModenkeWhite Eyes; North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Bulgaria rufa Schwein.Bulgaria rufa Schwein.1942H. MoldenkeCoshocton, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed
Specimen of Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) LloydCalvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd1942H. MoldenkeCoshcoton; N. Appl. Exp. Watershed, near Coshocton
A photograph of the species Tortula obtusifolia, not of this specimenTortula obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Mathieu1846W. S. Sullivant
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Sturnella magna, not of this specimenSturnella magna magna (Linnaeus, 1758)1892No Person (Birds)Coshocton Co
A photograph of the species Empidonax virescens, not of this specimenEmpidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818)1898Williamson, E. B.Cavallo, Coshocton, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Fusconaia flava, not of this specimenFusconaia flava (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton
A photograph of the species Hemistena lata, not of this specimenHemistena lata (Rafinesque, 1820)1903Sterki, VictorCoshocton

All 1,350 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
Hardscrabble1.7 miles16
Fairview Manor2.1 miles16
Riverview Estates2.3 miles16
West Lafayette2.3 miles16
Village Court2.5 miles16
Canal Lewisville2.5 miles16
Coshocton3.5 miles16
Pleasant Valley4.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062904. 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.