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

Morges, Ohio

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Rose Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44643. The Survey maps it on the Malvern quadrangle.

Morges within Carroll County

Then and now

1910 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Morges, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Morges, surveyed 1910

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

30 since 2003

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Morges between 2003 and 2019, burning about 287 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources5328
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8647
26 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources5065
6 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2005Debris and open burning4.4 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources1321

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 192 shown

Museums hold 192 specimens collected within 10 miles of Morges between 1927 and 1975: 189 Animalia, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Allen, E. J., Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), Baker, C. 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 Achalarus lyciades, not of this specimenAchalarus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)1927C.W. Baker
A photograph of the species Ambloplites rupestris, not of this specimenAmbloplites rupestris rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Cottus bairdii, not of this specimenCottus bairdii bairdii Girard, 18501928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Ericymba buccata, not of this specimenEricymba buccata Cope, 18651928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma blennioides, not of this specimenEtheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma flabellare, not of this specimenEtheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 18191928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Etheostoma zonale, not of this specimenEtheostoma zonale (Cope, 1868)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Hybopsis amblops, not of this specimenHybopsis amblops (Rafinesque, 1820)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Minerva, ~0.5 mi S of Minerva, Brown township
A photograph of the species Moxostoma erythrurum, not of this specimenMoxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township
A photograph of the species Notropis deliciosus, not of this specimenNotropis deliciosus (Girard, 1856)1928Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Sandy Creek, at Waynesburg, ~0.4 mi NW of Waynesburg, Sandy township

All 192 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

6 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Morges: 4 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
D & M Coal Clay PitClayProducer
D and M Clay and Shale PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Mineral City PlantClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Mineral City PlantClayPlant
Zito PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Zito PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms nearby

7 since 2009

The National Weather Service names Morges in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorges$35,000Emergency management reported trees and power lines down in Magnolia.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMorges$25,000The 911 call center reported trees down on S.R. 524 near Magnolia.
August 2014FloodMorges$5,000Emergency management reported a car stranded in water on Citrus Road due to flooding.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMorges$500Law enforcement reported a tree down.
June 2024HailMorges-no account filed
March 2022HailMorges-no account filed
September 2013HailMorges-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Fritchleys Corners1.7 miles16
Lake Mohawk3.3 miles16
Lindentree3.6 miles17
Rolling Homes4.6 miles16
Malvern5.2 miles16
New Harrisburg5.4 miles16
Lakeview5.4 miles16
Valleyview5.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1043492. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.