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

Mount Zion, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43772. The Survey maps it on the Caldwell North quadrangle.

Mount Zion within Noble 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 Mount Zion, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mount Zion, surveyed 1911

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

25 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Mount Zion between 2009 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15250
26 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15792
31 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2014Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources11505
20 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources14706

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Noble County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 81 shown

Museums hold 81 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Zion between 1902 and 1975: 71 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M., Adler, K. K., Tilley, S. G. & Wood 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 Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 1821Chrysops vittatus Wiedemann, 18211916not recorded
Specimen of Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 1878Tabanus sulcifrons Osten Sacken, 18781916not recorded
A photograph of the species Daedalea ambigua, not of this specimenDaedalea ambigua Berk.1902Lloyd C. G.Glenwood
A photograph of the species Erysiphe polygoni, not of this specimenErysiphe polygoni DC.1912E. BartholomewCaldwell
Apidae1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Apis mellifera, not of this specimenApis mellifera Linnaeus, 17581916not recorded
A photograph of the species Cuclotogaster heterographus, not of this specimenCuclotogaster heterographus (Nitzsch, 1866)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Goniodes Nitzsch, not of this specimenGoniodes Nitzsch, 18181916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Haematopinus suis, not of this specimenHaematopinus suis (Linnaeus, 1758)1916P. R. Lowry
A photograph of the species Melissodes bimaculatus, not of this specimenMelissodes bimaculatus (Lepeletier, 1825)1916not recorded
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo fowleri, not of this specimenBufo fowleri Hinckley, 18821929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Seneca Twp., Noble Co., Ohio

All 81 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 Mount Zion: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Ava PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
King Quarries ExtensionStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Noble 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
Glenwood2.7 miles13
Rochester3.0 miles13
Chaseville3.3 miles13
Ava4.0 miles13
Coal Ridge5.3 miles13
Sarahsville5.5 miles12
Rose Addition5.8 miles13
Lakeview5.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062909. 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.