Mount Blanco, Ohio
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45710. The Survey maps it on the Vales Mills quadrangle.
Then and now
1905 to 1992The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1905 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Wilkesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Vales Mills quadrangle1:24000
Fires nearby
15 since 2012The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mount Blanco between 2012 and 2020, burning about 26 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5506 |
| 12 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15781 |
| 26 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 4626 |
| 2 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 7898 |
| 9 March 2013 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 654 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 115 shownMuseums hold 115 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Blanco between 1912 and 1954: 109 Animalia, 3 Fungi, 3 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, D. Mote, H. Shamel 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 | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Bunostomum trigonocephalum (Rudolphi, 1808) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
| Heterakidae | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
| Obeliscoides cuniculi (Graybill, 1923) | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter | |
![]() | Oesophagostomum columbianum Curtice, 1890 | 1912 | D. Mote | Carpenter |
![]() | Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Luxilus chrysocephalus Rafinesque, 1820 | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Lythrurus umbratilis (Girard, 1856) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Moxostoma erythrurum (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Percina maculata (Girard, 1859) | 1929 | MB Trautman & asst. | Leading Creek, trib of Ohio River, at village of Carpenter, Columbiana Twp |
![]() | Bufo americanus Holbrook, 1836 | 1930 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) | Salem Twp., Meigs Co., Ohio |
All 115 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Ford | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Zeal (historical) | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Carpenter | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Point Rock | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Dyesville | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Welsh | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Martinsburg (historical) | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Pageville | 6.9 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1070850. 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.





















