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

Mount Carrick, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 2002. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43793. It stands on Bondy Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Woodsfield quadrangle.

Mount Carrick within Monroe County

Then and now

1905 to 2002

The same ground, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mount Carrick, surveyed 2002
Topographic sheet of Mount Carrick, surveyed 1905

Compare 1905 against another survey:

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.

Fires nearby

6 since 2012

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carrick between 2012 and 2019, burning about 16 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
10 April 2013Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources13746
1 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 December 2012Debris and open burning7.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 November 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15332
28 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 436 shown

Museums hold 436 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Carrick between 1860 and 1975: 414 Animalia, 14 Fungi, 6 Plantae, 1 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.), Adler, K. K. & Wood, T. (Tilley) 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 Taphrina sacchari JenkinsTaphrina sacchari Jenkins1922O.L. InmanAntioch College
Specimen of Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat.1924L.L. Lehman
Specimen of Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)Marmota monax monax (Linnaeus, 1758)1929Herbert R. MooneyWoodsfield
A photograph of the species Terrapene carolina, not of this specimenTerrapene carolina carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)1860David M. Dennis3 mi. N Graysville
A photograph of the species Alasmidonta marginata, not of this specimenAlasmidonta marginata Say, 18181901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias kleiniana, not of this specimenCyclonaias kleiniana (I.Lea, 1852)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Cyclonaias pustulosa, not of this specimenCyclonaias pustulosa (I.Lea, 1831)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Cyprogenia stegaria, not of this specimenCyprogenia stegaria (Rafinesque, 1820)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Elliptio crassidens, not of this specimenElliptio crassidens (Lamarck, 1819)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Eurynia dilatata, not of this specimenEurynia dilatata (Rafinesque, 1820)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Fusconaia subrotunda, not of this specimenFusconaia subrotunda (I.Lea, 1831)1901Sterki, VictorClarington
A photograph of the species Lampsilis ovata, not of this specimenLampsilis ovata (Say, 1817)1901Sterki, VictorClarington

All 436 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
Altitude1.2 miles14
Cranenest1.9 miles17
Coats2.1 miles14
Laings3.0 miles17
Six Point3.2 miles18
Woodsfield3.7 miles14
Griffith3.8 miles17
Round Bottom4.3 miles18

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 Q122567902The 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 1076446. 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.